<p>Preconciousness is associated with intense activation, yet confined to sensori-motor processors ; 
 Occipito-temporal loops and local synchrony ; 
 Priming at multiple levels ; 
 No reportability while attention is occupied elsewhere ;</p>

<p>quora could also provide some answers : <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-core-of-human-consciousness/answer/Daisi-Lui" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-core-of-human-consciousness/answer/Daisi-Lui</a> ;</p>

<p>preconsciousness could have started earlier than consciousness ;</p>

<p>Freud, S., Strachey, J., In Freud, A., In Rothgeb, C. L., Richards, A., &amp; Scientific Literature Corporation. (1953). The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.</p>

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Welcome to Psychology.SE. *"preconsciousness could have started earlier than consciousness"*. Are you able to provide anything more definite?
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<p>The answer provided by @user287279 to  <a href="https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/24110">When does a human baby develop a consciousness?</a> is a great answer in my mind which scrapes the surface of what consciousness consists of.</p>
<p>When you look at consciousness and how there are different levels to it, I couldn't initially think of any lower level of consciousness other than described in the answer:</p>
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<p>the ability to sense the world around you in an independent way</p>
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<p>But there is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preconscious" rel="nofollow noreferrer">preconscious</a>, where information is available for cognitive processing, but lies outside conscious awareness.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claire_Sergent/publication/7177242_Conscious_preconscious_and_subliminal_processing_A_testable_taxonomy/links/5a09ad5a458515afc7b0e2b3/Conscious-preconscious-and-subliminal-processing-A-testable-taxonomy.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dehaene, et al. (2006)</a> provides a good rundown on the difference between conscious, preconscious and subliminal processing, along with possible reasons why some knowledge remains permanently inaccessible; however, it doesn't indicate when preconscious processing begins.</p>
<p>I wonder if there is any scientific argument where it is considered that preconsciousness could have started earlier than consciousness?</p>
<h2>References</h2>
<p>Dehaene, S., Changeux, J. P., Naccache, L., Sackur, J., &amp; Sergent, C. (2006). Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy. <em>Trends in cognitive sciences, 10</em>(5), 204-211. doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007" rel="nofollow noreferrer">10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007</a><br>Free PDF available at: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claire_Sergent/publication/7177242_Conscious_preconscious_and_subliminal_processing_A_testable_taxonomy/links/5a09ad5a458515afc7b0e2b3/Conscious-preconscious-and-subliminal-processing-A-testable-taxonomy.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claire_Sergent/publication/7177242_Conscious_preconscious_and_subliminal_processing_A_testable_taxonomy/links/5a09ad5a458515afc7b0e2b3/Conscious-preconscious-and-subliminal-processing-A-testable-taxonomy.pdf</a></p>

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Different levels of consciousness
Chris Rogers
# Different levels of consciousness

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-20)

The answer provided by @user287279 to [When does a human baby develop a consciousness?](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/24110) is a great answer in my mind which scrapes the surface of what consciousness consists of.

When you look at consciousness and how there are different levels to it, I couldn't initially think of any lower level of consciousness other than described in the answer:

> the ability to sense the world around you in an independent way

But there is the [preconscious](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preconscious), where information is available for cognitive processing, but lies outside conscious awareness.

[Dehaene, et al. (2006)](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claire_Sergent/publication/7177242_Conscious_preconscious_and_subliminal_processing_A_testable_taxonomy/links/5a09ad5a458515afc7b0e2b3/Conscious-preconscious-and-subliminal-processing-A-testable-taxonomy.pdf) provides a good rundown on the difference between conscious, preconscious and subliminal processing, along with possible reasons why some knowledge remains permanently inaccessible; however, it doesn't indicate when preconscious processing begins.

I wonder if there is any scientific argument where it is considered that preconsciousness could have started earlier than consciousness?

## References

Dehaene, S., Changeux, J. P., Naccache, L., Sackur, J., & Sergent, C. (2006). Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy. *Trends in cognitive sciences, 10*(5), 204-211. doi: [10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007)  
Free PDF available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claire_Sergent/publication/7177242_Conscious_preconscious_and_subliminal_processing_A_testable_taxonomy/links/5a09ad5a458515afc7b0e2b3/Conscious-preconscious-and-subliminal-processing-A-testable-taxonomy.pdf>

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### Answer by username_1 on 2019-09-27. Score: 1

Preconciousness is associated with intense activation, yet confined to sensori-motor processors ;
Occipito-temporal loops and local synchrony ;
Priming at multiple levels ;
No reportability while attention is occupied elsewhere ;

quora could also provide some answers : <https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-core-of-human-consciousness/answer/Daisi-Lui> ;

preconsciousness could have started earlier than consciousness ;

Freud, S., Strachey, J., In Freud, A., In Rothgeb, C. L., Richards, A., & Scientific Literature Corporation. (1953). The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.

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> **username_0**: Welcome to Psychology.SE. *"preconsciousness could have started earlier than consciousness"*. Are you able to provide anything more definite?  

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