Equating attention to an internal mapping of mental processes makes sense. I don't see how that leads to the subjective feeling of consciousness. This article,

Equating attention to an internal mapping of mental processes makes sense. I don't see how that leads to the subjective feeling of consciousness. This article, and Dennett's Consciousness Explained both argue for schemas that would seem to accompany consciousness, or even be necessary for it. But they are both unsatisfying because they don't explain the subjective part. I can imagine software interacting with sensors of the real world, and many levels of organization above that, in which there are schemas allowing for symbolic manipulation of the layer below. I can also imagine how such a system might reason about (i.e., manipulate a symbolic representation of) some other computer's layers of representation and reasoning. But I don't see how the subjective feeling of consciousness arises here either.