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This connotation of consciousness includes both pre-conceptual [[attention]] of external objects or states of one's body, as well as conceptually structured consciousness of objects (e.g. in a description).<ref name="MetzingerLexikon" /> It is an ''intentional'' notion of consciousness, as according to this notion, consciousness is always about something.
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=== Binary predicate of organisms ===
The term "conscious" is also being used as a binary predicate, i.e. a predicate which takes two "variables". In one way of using the term, one of the variables refers to persons or organisms, and the other refers to objects of perception or thinking, cf. [[add LINK].
''Example:'' A person is conscious of a red tomato.
=== Binary predicate of mental states ===
