Full Idea
Harman defended what came to be known as 'representationalism' - the view that qualitative aspects of experience are nothing other than representational aspects.
Gist of Idea
Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism')
Source
report of Gilbert Harman (The Intrinsic Quality of Experience [1990]) by Tyler Burge - Philosophy of Mind: 1950-2000 p.459
Book Reference
Burge,Tyler: 'Foundations of the Mind' [OUP 2007], p.459
A Reaction
Functionalists like Harman have a fairly intractable problem with the qualities of experience, and this may be clutching at straws. What does 'represent' mean? How is the representation achieved? Why that particular quale?