The meaning of consciousness (Part III): Conscious thought results as our brain goes through our conscious (language-coded) knowledge.
The following is part of Chapter III of "A Scientific Model Of The Brain": Concepts and conscious (natural-language coded) knowledge: (conscious) concepts are the stereotypes we form to use as sequences-of-actions- building blocks, so that it becomes feasible to elaborate complex plans for the achievement of our goals. * What is the essential role played by our instinct - the unconscious levels of our brain - in the resolution of those tasks, that our conscious thought takes on? As a matter of fact, even a highly cognitive task such as reading text is carried out with very little intervention by the conscious levels of our brain. Indeed, it is only when we are starting learning how to read, that we go about one by one consciously and conscientiously recognizing each and every letter. However, little by little, as we gain more practice, more and more we become able to identify at once strings of several letters or even entire words. In fact, as we go through a text, very oft...