Explaining consciousness provides physicalism with challenges that place limits on scientific knowledge and what it can discover about consciousness Consciousness is one of those topics that is in the position of trying to understand its own organism with its own body. The theme of consciousness is so elusive that it mirrors childhood games in which one tries to catch one's own shadow. In the world of philosophy, discerning the truth about consciousness is not a child's game. Materialist JJC Smart and philosopher Thomas Nagel agree that qualia exist, but they are diametrically opposed when it comes to what consciousness is. In this article I will support Nagel's view that consciousness does not fall within the core of scientific explanation. Physicalism cannot objectively discover consciousness using scientific methods because consciousness cannot be reduced to material parts. If Smart's reductionist views were correct, that physics can explain everything there is to know about everything in the universe, then why does consciousness seem to evade the physical laws of inquiry? Explaining consciousness provides physicalism with challenges that place limits on scientific knowledge and what it can discover about consciousness. JJC Smart proposes that a scientific explanation of consciousness must fall within universal physical laws. Furthermore, if science could not explain consciousness within scientific laws, then we would have a problem called “nomological lump”. For Smart, this is incredible. It would appear that this move by Smart is based on scientific bias. The nature of consciousness lies in the experience of first-person reporting, and if philosophy of mind means having complete scientific knowledge of… the medium of paper… the sense that they are easily detectable . Physically looking for something that has no physical structure is like trying to get rid of the left by moving towards the right. Ultimately, science is looking in the wrong direction because by default it cannot take first-person quotes into account. In conclusion, it is very difficult to find scientific solutions to the problem of consciousness. Science may never be able to solve the mysteries of qualia. You may need to introduce new methods to discover personal experiences that lie far in the future. Philosophers have no choice but to continue searching for a complete theory of a science of mind. Furthermore, humility in the sciences can contribute to the understanding of consciousness. “We don't know what consciousness means outside the framework of personality” - Albert Einstein