The phrase "able to be conscious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity for awareness or perception, often in contexts related to consciousness or mental states.
Example: "The patient was able to be conscious after the surgery, which was a positive sign of recovery."
Alternatives: "capable of consciousness" or "able to perceive".
If he was able to be conscious now and see all that has hap pened I would imagine that his worries about his pension and his job must seem rather shallow compared to being able to be around his daughters and his wife and family.
Humans have evolved to the point where we are able to be conscious on multiple levels of existence, from the physical to the psychoenergetic all the way to the Transcendental level.
Some experienced practitioners of meditation, to gradual cultivation of the property of awareness, claim to be able to be conscious beyond REM sleep.
On the contrary, her parents argued to continue administering her artificial life support, believing her to be conscious and able to recover.
You have to be conscious enough to be able to see things in a split second and react". The perfect game has yet to be played, but opportunities have been seized: 69 tackles last season, second on the team.
It has been argued that it is a distinctive functional property of human declarative memory (which is taken to be conscious) that subjects are able to discern the presence and absence of such memories (Tulving and Schacter 1990).
Because I am forced to slow down, I am able to be more conscious and hence more patient.
And there is something to be said for sharing while you're playing a game with somebody, being more able to be honest and less self-conscious than if they were meeting a church somewhere, or something.
The person must be conscious, able to understand you, and should not be choking.
His condition is "stable," says an aide, but "he is not in a condition where he can participate in management". Samsung officials say they have no word on whether he is able to communicate or is conscious.
The initial emphasis on sensation -- as opposed to memory or thinking or some other aspect of consciousness -- was quite deliberate, because the earliest psychologists understood that, in order to be scientific, they had to be able to tie conscious experience, which is inherently subjective, to the objective world of physical events.
