Consciousness:

"I propose, then, that we do not characterize consciousness as a kind of mental mirror, but as the exercise of the (learned) skill of "spelling-out" some feature of the world as we are engaged with it."

"the subtlety, the range, and the aptness of exercise of the skill varies markedly among individuals"

"Colloquially, to spell something out is to make it explicit, to say it in a clearly and fully elaborated way, to make it perfectly apparent."

Herbert Fingarette