The phrase "access to consciousness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about psychology, philosophy, or neuroscience when referring to the ability to be aware of one's thoughts and feelings.
Example: "Meditation can enhance one's access to consciousness, allowing for deeper self-reflection and awareness."
Alternatives: "awareness of consciousness" or "entry to consciousness".
Our working hypothesis will thus be that such mobilization of the GNW circuits constitutes an objective sign of access to consciousness (8).
Del Cul, A., Dehaene, S., Reyes, P., Bravo, E. & Slachevsky, A. Causal role of prefrontal cortex in the threshold for access to consciousness.
As presented in this review, analysis of human brain development from early fetal stages in utero up to the adult state offers original insights into the neural bases of the access to consciousness.
The Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) model asserts that perceptual stages may unfold identically on conscious and non-conscious trials, but that, when a stimulus gains access to consciousness, stimulus-specific information is amplified and re-encoded in additional areas, including a prefrontal parietal network.
The distinction between phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness (i.e., a conscious state that is not entirely private) justifies the distinction between a purely phenomenological approach to consciousness, and the approach typical of scientific psychology and neurosciences.
Many scientists and philosophers remain convinced that even if some questions about animal minds are empirically tractable, no amount of experimentation can provide access to phenomenal consciousness per se.
Subjective report provides unique access to phenomenal consciousness (Chalmers, 1997), but is notoriously problematic as a guide to neural bases of experience Guggisberg, Dalal, Schnider, and Nagarajan (2011) have recently considered neural correlates of subjective experience related to voluntary action.
Some of it is structural: while the narrator appears to control the story, and we are never granted direct access to Mitko's consciousness, Greenwell shows enough to allow us to empathise with him.
He may have been advocating some sort of special access to our own consciousness that makes it appear to us that the wave function has collapsed; this would suggest a phenomenological reading of Process I.
However, one consequence of this amazing capacity is to limit our direct access to the vast consciousness of which we are a part.
William James, considered the father of psychology, made a bold proposal about this function of the brain at the turn of the 19th century, saying that the brain filters our access to a vast consciousness, which extends beyond the limits of neural activity.
