"acting consciously" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that someone is deliberately and intentionally performing an action or behavior. Example: "He was able to win the debate by acting consciously, carefully choosing his words and tone to persuade the audience."
One issue is that free-market populists tend to only see problems where government is acting, consciously or unconsciously, to boost monopoly power.
If the code was being followed, it is likely that both men would have to have been acting consciously for the signals to continue.
Finally, this is, in an important sense, a class-struggle government – one acting consciously and directly on behalf of the rich.
While talking with Mancuso, I kept thinking about words like "will," "choice," and "intention," which he seemed to attribute to plants rather casually, almost as if they were acting consciously.
The artist, whether acting consciously or intuitively, also places them in relationship to one another across the picture, so that they weave a unifying rhythmic network throughout the painting.
This emotion prevents them from acting consciously.
Ethics thus considers the object of consciousness not as something given or even as something constructed by necessary laws of consciousness, but rather as something to be produced by a freely acting subject, consciously striving to establish and to accomplish its own goals and guided only by its own self-legislated laws.
"Commitment phobes" are often acting, either consciously or unconsciously, out of trauma from past relationships, either romantic or familial.
However, ultimately he cannot escape the cameras and the candidates find themselves acting self-consciously in front of the lens.
One reason Great Expectations adapts so readily to the stage is the fact that so many of its characters are consciously acting out roles.
Once the dancers knew the choreography, Robbins told them to relax and just dance it, without acting or even consciously projecting to the audience.
