In this paper I put forward a representationalist theory of conscious experience based on Robert Stalnaker’s version of two-dimensional
modal semantics. According to this theory the phenomenal character of an experience correlates with a content equivalent to
what Stalnaker calls the diagonal proposition. I show that the theory is closely related both to functionalist theories of
consciousness and to higher-order representational theories. It is also more compatible with an anti-Cartesian view of the
mind than standard representationalist theories.