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Conscious awareness and behaviour: what distinguishes conscious experience from unconscious processes?Keywords: behaviour, brain, conscious awareness, conscious experience, consciousness, unconscious processes. Abstract: 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.
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