What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.