The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in the lab by researchers. If we allow the mental its own existence as a category disjoint from the physical, we will never be able to get it back in.
William Hirstein, Mindmelding: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Privacy
consciousness, dualism, metaphysics, monism, neuroscience