Ned Block's distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness shows that functional evaluation of sense data is insufficient to establish 'what it is like' experience.

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Functional evaluation(The philosophical approach Block argues is insufficient): Analyzing something by looking at what it does or how it works, rather than what the experience of it feels like from the inside.
Ned Block(as a philosopher studying consciousness): A contemporary philosopher who studies consciousness and the mind; he's known for arguing that our conscious experiences (like seeing colors) might be fundamentally different from what we can logically imagine or prove.
What it is like(the key phrase emphasizing personal, first-person experience that resists objective description): The subjective, felt quality of an experience—what something is actually like from the inside when you experience it yourself (also called the 'subjective character' of experience).
access consciousness(Contrasted with phenomenal consciousness as one of the 'easy problems'): A form of consciousness whose dynamics can be explained in terms of the functional or computational organization of the brain

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