 This objection to actualist forms of HOT theory is considered at some length in Carruthers (2000), where a variety of possible replies are discussed and evaluated. Perhaps the most plausible and challenging such reply would be to deny the main premise lying behind the objection, concerning the rich nature of phenomenally conscious experience. The theory could align itself with Dennett’s (1991) conception of consciousness as highly fragmented, with multiple streams of perceptual content being processed in parallel in different regions of the brain, and with no stage at which all of these contents are routinely integrated into a phenomenally conscious perceptual manifold. Rather, contents become conscious on a piecemeal basis, as a result of internal or external probing that gives rise to a HOT about the content in question. This serves to convey to us the mere illusion of riches, because wherever we direct our attention, there we find a conscious perceptual content. (For a related reply, see Gennaro 2012, chapter six). 