 Here we connect with another important issue that lies outside of the scope of this entry. However, it should be briefly noted that proponents of teleosemantics have several options for dealing with this problem. They can either deny the narrow supervenience thesis for phenomenal consciousness (see, e.g., Dretske 1995) or they can argue that there is no necessary connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality, i.e. that a being can be phenomenally conscious without having genuine intentional states (see, e.g., Neander 1996 and Papineau 2021).