Tulving's concept of episodic memory as 'mental time travel' requires autonoetic consciousness, a first-person temporal indexing that purely representational content cannot supply.

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First-person temporal indexing(as a feature of autonoetic consciousness): The way your memory places you specifically in time and space when recalling your own experiences—it's personal to you and tied to when things happened.
Representational content(as what explains how our beliefs can mean something): The ability of thoughts, mental images, or beliefs to be 'about' something in the real world—like how the thought 'it's raining' represents an actual weather condition.
Tulving, Endel(as the originator of the episodic memory concept): A cognitive psychologist who studied how memory works and developed influential theories about different types of memory, particularly the idea that some memories feel like reliving past experiences.
autonoetic consciousness: A form of self-aware consciousness in which the subject experiences a remembered event as part of their own past experience

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