General and specific consciousness: a first-order representationalist approach.
Frontiers in Psychology 2013 Neil Mehta, George A. Mashour
It is widely acknowledged that a complete theory of consciousness should explain general consciousness (what makes a state conscious at all) and specific consciousness (what gives a conscious state its particular phenomenal quality). We defend first-order representationalism, which argues that consciousness consists of sensory representations directly available to the subject for action...