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This is achieved by two distinguishing features: adaptive decomposition and transpose order awareness.
Thus the proprioception which constitutes consciousness, as distinguished from mere awareness, is a higher order awareness, a perception of one part of (or configuration in) our brain by the brain itself.
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In which case, since one can have a conscious experience (e.g. of the spot) without being aware that one is having it, consciousness cannot require higher-order awareness.
Apparently, first-order awareness does not require a reflective act.
Kumārila argues, though, that the problem with such an appeal is that the second-order awareness that the thing perceived is pragmatically efficacious is itself just another cognition.
So why should our higher-order awareness of a mental state (either via a perception-like state, produced by inner sense, or via a higher-order thought about it) render that mental state conscious?
As Carruthers puts it, the subjective feel of experience presupposes a capacity for higher-order awareness, and as he then continues, "such self-awareness is a conceptually necessary condition for an organism to be a subject of phenomenal feelings, or for there to be anything that its experiences are like" (Carruthers 1996, 152).
When a paper describing two or more cases finally appeared in one of hundreds of medical journals, it still had to be read and remembered by clinicians in order for awareness of the disorder to spread.
However, it is worth noting that the monkey Insula does not have a homologue of IFO [47], underscoring a likely prominent role for this phylogenetically new region in higher order physiological awareness "that might be absent in monkeys".
And that hypothesis in turn encourages a representational theory of higher-order conscious awareness and introspection.
Mediational analyses confirmed that these relationships are likely sequentially ordered, with awareness leading to appraisal to responsibility and then behavioral and contribution intentions.
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