Ned Block's distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness allows that a creature may have rich phenomenal experience without the functional selectivity attention requires.

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Functional selectivity(A requirement that comes with how attention normally works): The requirement that attention must pick and choose which information to focus on, filtering out less important details so the brain can handle what matters most.
Ned Block(as a philosopher studying consciousness): A contemporary philosopher who studies consciousness and the mind; he's known for arguing that our conscious experiences (like seeing colors) might be fundamentally different from what we can logically imagine or prove.
access consciousness(Contrasted with phenomenal consciousness as one of the 'easy problems'): A form of consciousness whose dynamics can be explained in terms of the functional or computational organization of the brain
attention(Lockean view; attention is a subset-determining process within consciousness): A process that constitutes conscious thinking when conscious thinking occurs in a certain way
phenomenal consciousness(Contrasted with functional or physical properties in anti-physicalist arguments): The subjective, felt quality of experience that zombies are stipulated to lack despite physical identity with conscious humans

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