Is Conscioust Adding to the Story?

We're trying to explain what it is that makes a perception conscious, as opposed to being unconscious. I'm not sure what sort of extra source consciousness is adding here. We could probably do itall the psychology without mentioning the word consciousness at all. It doesn't seem to me to be adding anything extra to the story. For example, in animal welfare, whether fish have just no seception and react as they have pain like experiences or whether there's a conscious sensation of pain. So i think it er, it's important to keep the term for many, many applications, most notably therapetic applications.