“…For example, various scholars claim that consciousness has the function of making information globally available across the system, and transforming data into a format that can be easily and flexibly used by high-level processors (language, autobiographical memory, decision-making, metacognition, etc.) ( Baars, 1988 ; Dehaene and Naccache, 2001 ; Earl, 2014 ; Mashour et al, 2020 ; Frigato, 2021 ). However, they do not explain why this must be the case, that is, why only information and data that have the particular phenomenal aspect that consciousness assigns to them, can be made globally available across the system and processed by high-level processors.…”