Consciousness, according to William James, is a continuous stream made of brief, adjacent states that occur one at a time, except when it stops and restarts. At any given moment, a person's conscious mental life consists of a single, integrated state with many intrinsic features, and there is no evidence of a second simultaneous stream.
The neural correlates of consciousness are the patterns of brain activity that accompany subjective experience. This abstract introduces the concept without presenting a specific finding, argument, or empirical result.