%0 Journal Article %T Conscious awareness and behaviour: what distinguishes conscious experience from unconscious processes? %A Peacock %A John %J Discusiones Filos¨®ficas %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this paper considers the concept of conscious awareness. the activity of the brain can generally be divided into two categories: unconscious processes and those that contribute to building conscious experience. that which we are consciously aware of and experiencing; and that which we are not. an understanding of consciousness requires an understanding of what criteria separate the two. i argue a role for behaviour ina the distinction. i suggest a means of separating out conscious experience by considering the sort of expressible behaviour that unconscious processes correspond to. %K behaviour %K brain %K conscious awareness %K conscious experience %K consciousness %K unconscious processes. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0124-61272012000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en