Sensory Awareness is not a Wide Physical Relation 1

Externalist Intentionalism is the conjunction Intentionalism and the claim that the “awareness relation” (or the “sensory representation relation”) is a wide physical relation. I develop two empirically-based counterexamples to Externalist Intentionalism about experience, one involving color vision and the other involving pain. I argue that the correct verdict in these examples is Different Experiences (the individuals involved have different experience), but that Externalist Intentionalism delivers the mistaken verdict of Same Experiences. Therefore, the Intentionalist cannot identify the awareness relation with a wide physical relation. In my view, the awareness relation is a primitive relation between individuals and manifest properties.