Is There a Relationship Between Consciousness and Awareness?

"The committee upstairs are raising objections based on their past experience," he says. "What we are suggesting your silence and my explanation of it so conflicts with the committee's beliefs, but the Committee's beliefs do not come from their experience." He adds that in some way there is like a supervenient relationship between consciousness and the brain. And so you can alter the brain and it will change experience - perhaps it doesn't change awareness.