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== Conscious mechanism ==
Some publications talk about a brain ''mechanism'' being conscious or not. This may be taken to implicitly refer to the [[neural correlates of consciousness]] (NCC), where a mechanism "is conscious" if it is part of the NCC.
=== Chalmers' axiomatization ===
A notion defined in (Chalmers 1996)<ref>Chalmers, David J. The conscious mind: In search of a fundamental theory. Oxford university press, 1996.</ref>, cf. [[Phenomenal_consciousness#Chalmers' definition|phenomenal consciousness - Chalmers' definition]].
→Meanings of the term consciousness
For a distinction of various forms of introspection and general information on the neuroanatomical basis of consciousness, cf. the page [[introspection]].
== Attention ==
This connotation of consciousness can be both pre-conceptual or conceptual<ref name="MetzingerLexikon" />.
The general sense of the term from phenomenology, cf. [[Phenomenal_consciousness#Meaning from phenomenology|phenomenal consciousness - meaning from phenomenology]].
=== Chalmers' axiomatization ===A notion defined in (Chalmers 1996)<ref>Chalmers, David J. The conscious mind: In search of a fundamental theory. Oxford university press, 1996.</ref>, cf. [[Phenomenal_consciousness#Chalmers' definition|phenomenal consciousness - Chalmers' definition]]. == Intentionality ===
Person or mental state on object
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.
=== Pure subjective experience ===
experience"<ref>Thomas Metzinger. The problem of consciousness. In Thomas Metzinger, editor, Con-
scious experience, pages 3–37. Imprint Academic, 1995.</ref>
== Conscious mechanism ==
Some publications talk about a brain ''mechanism'' being conscious or not. This may be taken to implicitly refer to the [[neural correlates of consciousness]] (NCC), where a mechanism "is conscious" if it is part of the NCC.
