Table 1.

Features of conscious states

General

1.  Conscious states are unitary, integrated, and constructed by the brain.

2.  They can be enormously diverse and differentiated.

3.  They are temporally ordered, serial, and changeable.

4.  They reflect binding of diverse modalities.

5.  They have constructive properties including gestalt, closure, and phenomena of filling in.

Informational

1.  They show intentionality with wide-ranging contents.

2.  They have widespread access and associativity.

3.  They have center periphery, surround, and fringe aspects.

4.  They are subject to attentional modulation, from focal to diffuse.

Subjective

1.  They reflect subjective feelings, qualia, phenomenality, mood, pleasure, and unpleasure.

2.  They are concerned with situatedness and placement in the world.

3.  They give rise to feelings of familiarity or its lack.