# Which Causes of an Experience are also Objects of the Experience **Abstract:** It is part of the phenomenology of perceptual experiences that objects seem to be presented to us. The first guide to objects is their perceptual presence. Further reflection shows that we take the objects of our perceptual experiences to be among the causes of our experiences. However, not all causes of the experience are also objects of the experience. This raises the question indicated in the title of this paper. We argue that taking phenomenal presence as the guide to the objects of perception, we can see that at least in two sensory modalities, smell and touch, there is no uniform answer to this question. The objects of olfactory and tactile experiences can move along the causal chain. Accordingly, the content of olfactory and tactile experience may vary. 0. The content of perception By ‘perceptual experiences’ we mean here experiences associated with the process of apparently gaining information through the five external senses: vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste. Perceptual experiences form a variety of sensory experiences in general; other varieties may include experiences that are not clearly associated with the process of external perception. In visual or auditory imagining, experiences are not produced by external senses. Bodily sensations, possibly some types of emotional experiences, or experiences of the passage of time may involve sensory modalities other than those associated with the five external senses. Perception provides our primary access to the contin **Authors:** [[Farkas]]