Studies from developmental psychology suggest that young children do not see their brain as the source of conscious experience and will.
Physical pain is both an objective physiological process and a subjective conscious experience.
Therefore, the nervous system does not cause conscious experience, but can be used to explain some characteristics of mental events.
It includes conscious experiences of well being, success, and failure, but also a whole lot more.
This shows that we do process information outside of our immediate conscious experience.
In particular, conscious experience must exist in such a possible world.
In both cases, conscious experience is the result of behavior.
This shows that it is possible for mental processes to take place without conscious experience.
His more recent work centers on conscious experience and self-knowledge.
These are the processes which provide the material foundation of conscious experience.