Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude (which, according to phenomenology, is the properly philosophical attitude).
Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
consciousness, emergence, experience, materialism, naturalism, phenomenology