# Phenomenal-Presence-and-Perceptual-Awareness **Opening (not a real abstract):** 1. A Puzzle about Perception After a longer stay in Australia where I learned to deeply enjoy the close presence of magpies and cockatoos, I took the habit, back in Switzerland, to put pieces of cheese in front of the window to attract the black crows living in the neighborhood. One of them discovered the new source of food very quickly and he returns to the window almost every day. When I watch the crow outside the window I am perceptually aware of it and I have, in some sense, direct access through the senses to that beautiful animal. Suppose that after having worked through several nights in order to finish this paper I take a drug with the intention to enhance my concentration on the topic of perception and that the drug has, unbeknownst to me, psychedelic side effects. It might then happen that during my work I look out **Authors:** [[Martine Nida-Rümelin]]