Proponents of representationalism, including Dennett (1990), Lycan (1996), and Carruthers (2000), are motivated by the goal of accommodating facts about consciousness within a physicalist framework without requiring the existence of qualia or non-representational mental properties.

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• qualia concept
• consciousness concept
• representationalism concept