People can be conscious and have no sensations and no awareness {non-consciousness}|. Most actions, body functions, brain functions, and perceptions have non-consciousness, such as during reflexes, eye saccades, eye blinks, attentional blinks, sense habituation, sense saturation, orientation response, flight-or-fight responses, fast innate responses, instinctual behavior, habits, walking, reaching, and skilled movements. Voluntary motor actions and skills are not conscious. Non-conscious activities make few errors, have high speed, have one type and do or find one thing, and do not vary. Non-conscious activities can happen in parallel. Non-conscious activities cannot inhibit behavior. Conscious and non-conscious contents do not affect or interfere with non-conscious activities.
semi-conscious
Biofeedback can control heartbeat rate, extremity temperature, and extremity sweating, but people have no voluntary muscle or gland control, do not feel anything specific, and do not know how control works. People cannot feel or control blood chemical concentrations, even with biofeedback.
conscious then non-conscious
Learning to swim, bicycle, play sport, or perform skilled actions is under conscious control, but, after learning, these activities do not use conscious control or attention to bodily feelings.
conscious or non-conscious
Performing skilled procedures, such as reading, can be automatic or can use attention. Skilled behaviors, situations involving divided attention, somnambulism, and involuntary regulatory responses can happen with or without consciousness. Stimulus intensity below objective-threshold level is too low for perception. Stimulus intensity above objective-threshold level causes perception. At subjective-threshold level, people begin to detect sense qualities [Dehaene et al., 1998] [Morris et al., 1998] [Morris et al., 1999] [Whalen et al., 1998].
always conscious
Behaviors can be always conscious, such as remembering, deciding, willing, choosing, and talking to oneself [Berns et al., 1997] [Cheesman and Merikle, 1986] [Cleeremans et al., 1998] [Curran, 2001] [Destrebecqz and Cleeremans, 2001] [Ellenberger, 1970] [Holender, 1986] [Jacoby, 1991] [Kolb and Braun, 1995] [Merikle, 1992] [Merikle et al., 2001] [Reingold and Merikle, 1990].
cognition
Memory uses non-conscious activities. Perception uses non-conscious activities. People can have perception without consciousness [Marcel, 1983] [Marcel and Bisiach, 1988] [Merikle et al., 2001] [Peirce and Jastrow, 1885] [Sidis, 1898].
zombie
Perhaps, people can be always non-conscious, like rocks, plants, and invertebrates. It is possible to imagine people doing everything we do but like zombies.
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