 One way to defend Intentionalism examines how we become introspectively aware of what it’s like to have our experiences. Arguably we become introspectively aware of what it’s like to have our experiences only by being aware of what we are experiencing. Perhaps awareness of the world is the sole route to introspective awareness of what it’s like to have a given experience. And perhaps this point about introspection supports at least a minimal version of Intentionalism. For further discussion of this broadly epistemological argument for intentionalism, see the entry on  qualia  (section 6), also the entry on  representational theories of consciousness  (section 3.3).