PEACOCK, John. Conscious awareness and behaviour: what distinguishes conscious experience from unconscious processes?. []. , 13, 20, pp.37-56. ISSN 0124-6127.

This paper considers the concept of conscious awareness. The activity of the brain can generally be divided into two categories: unconscious processes and those that contribute to building conscious experience. That which we are consciously aware of and experiencing; and that which we are not. An understanding of consciousness requires an understanding of what criteria separate the two. I argue a role for behaviour ina the distinction. I suggest a means of separating out conscious experience by considering the sort of expressible behaviour that unconscious processes correspond to.

: Behaviour; brain; conscious awareness; conscious experience; consciousness; unconscious processes.

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