2. While the locution "feel pain" suggests conscious experience to most readers, it does not do so for all.
Although he thinks that the intelligence displayed by these examples suggests conscious thought, many critics have been disappointed by the lack of systematic connection between Griffin's examples and the attribution of consciousness (see, e.g., Alcock 1992).
The global workspace model suggests conscious perception of sensory events requires sensory cortex activation embedded in a cortical network, the global workspace, extending beyond the primary sensory regions including prefrontal, parietal and cingulate cortices [33].
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the same team suggested that suppression of sexual arousal may be automatic in women but not in men: Men showed increased prefrontal cortex activation during inhibition trials, suggesting conscious effort to suppress responding, whereas women did not (Laan, 2007).
The statement that "the dance has now come to the highest point of its perfection" by the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 1764) suggested how conscious the French were of the great strides dance had made.
Short for "body conscious", this refers to skintight mini-dresses, tight high-waisted trousers and basically any other garment that makes you, as the name suggests, very conscious of your body - conscious in the sense that you can't eat lunch without busting a seam.
In view of the seeming unreliability of proprioceptive drift, our focus on conscious experience, and the evidence suggesting that conscious experience causes drift, we opted not to employ this behavioral proxy.
Crucially, in Kunde's experiment [12], whereas conflict adaptation was clearly present after the conscious experience of conflict, it was absent when conflict-inducing stimuli were experienced unconsciously, which suggests that conscious information processing is necessary for trial-by-trial regulatory changes in cognitive control.
To speak of its "fairness" would convey the wrong impression, because that suggests a conscious virtue.
(A comically depicted May-November romance between a professor and a student in "Paris" suggests a conscious homage to "Manhattan").
