Consciousness as representing one's mind: the higher-order approach to consciousness explained

My goal in this book is to introduce and explore one of the most wildly counter- intuitive ideas about the nature of consciousness that I have ever come across. No, I am not talking about the claim that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality— far from it! I am talking about the idea that consciousness might ultimately turn out just to be representing one’s own mental life. And what’s more, that the right kind of representation might itself be something more like a thought than it is like a picture or image.