Conclusion

two basic phenomenological forms of intuitive mental representation

Amy E. Varela

pp. 175-180

in: Eduard Marbach, Mental representation and consciousness, Deventer, Kluwer, 1993

Abstract

The main assumption, perhaps, of the present investigation can be put as simply as follows: consciousness matters in mental representation. In this study, I have tried to show exactly how consciousness is involved in any of several more or less elementary varieties of mentally representing something. The reader will have understood that the range of what is referred to by the title of the present study, mental representation and consciousness, has been confined just to intuitive mental representation.