Access consciousness and language

Note - the explicit 'language based' representational code is not domain specific like the implicit 'cognitive mode' that is found in other primates, but has the domain-generality and interpenetrability that you find with 'access consciousness'; it is a general purpose representational format that is not anchored in particular implicit motive contexts (e.g. competition for food), or caching food in scrub jays (Clayton).

This intentional cognitive mode may also be much more closely associated with self-control based on normative standards - much more self-regulating in this sense, ultimately leading to the e.g. responsibility-bearing personhood, with emotions like guilt or pride, and self-esteem. Agency now has a social-normative core.