Full Idea
Higher-order models would effectively reduce the problem of consciousness to that of intentionality.
Gist of Idea
Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality
Source
Robert van Gulick (Mirror Mirror - Is That All? [2006], §I)
Book Reference
'Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness', ed/tr. Kriegel,U /Williford,K [MIT 2006], p.13
A Reaction
This gives the bigger picture - that higher-order theories are the cutting edge of attempts to give a naturalistic, reductivist account of consciousness. That seems to be the only way to go, so we should encourage them in the enterprise.