Folk generally consider such things as emotions and Intelligence, as per the RESULT of consciousness. That is;
A. As for emotions; we have an experience, which results in a generated feeling about the event. So our emotions are clearly affected and influenced by each experience. A frightening exposure may lead to fear and reservation, an enjoyable one – to a sense of well-being and exuberance.
Therefore a resultant emotion will be inaugurated by the impulse/s towards that result – being the feeling/s that (at first) enter our consciousness/awareness via the sensory system, will subsequently be translated into a memory, based upon an emotional evaluation of the experience.
B. Similarly, we generically relate to Intelligence as an accumulated result of consciousness – an incremental learning about our environment through the relative experience/s as delivered into our awareness, which in turn support the thoughts/consideration towards future choices and their resultant experiences, and so on.
On the other hand, I have long been arguing there to be BOTH an emotional and an Intellectual INPUT genetically initiating consciousness, and through it - via choice and action; the vast majority of experiences we ever encounter - after which, the above result commences.
So this is according the GENETIC (rather than resultant) side of the equation, which has largely been ignored. Yet for mine, it is this side of consciousness that presents by far the most complete definition of man – being the rather set-apart entity having the capacity to reason from such an advanced IntelligenceINPUT into his choices, which then translate into the experience (as above), leading to the accumulating dual-awareness (emotions and Intelligence) that we have come to recognise as consciousness.
For mine, it works like this;
Emotion + Intelligence > CONSCIOUSNESS > considerations > choice > action > experience > resultant emotion as memory > + Intelligence > considerations (based upon resultant emotion + Intelligence) > choice > etc.
The above model defines consciousness overall, however the main (but not only) problem with average perception, is that we skip the first (GENETIC) step, and in particular the most essential aspect of it - INTELLIGENCE, and reason that the process commences with consciousness, as if it has no core foundation, nothing supporting it – and call this scientific???