Conscious Awareness or Comprehension

Are there significant differences between conscious awareness and conscious comprehension?

The 1st portion of my questions to distinguish might be what I mean by conscious. I think there is a general common understanding by mostly anyone from their own experience, of the interpretation of what consciousness is. Even if there’s no common detailed understanding, I think there is still a roughly similar idea that most people share of what consciousness is. 

But to try to be more specific in the parameters of what I mean by conscious, I described my hypothesis of the function of consciousness (which seems to repeatedly hold up and become more evident, the more it is applied to other related concepts) in a summary post from 3 yrs ago; Conscious Comprehension. Overall, the most basic constructs of consciousness seem to be memory access of factors and their interaction. These basic components allow for conscious awareness of anything perceived, and how it is relative to something else. It also allows comprehension of cause and effect from any interaction of factors, which allows potential understanding, problem solving, and intentional choice to alter factors for preferred outcome. 

Generic “Awareness” generally insinuates; alert perception and mindful attentiveness. Most people and animals have basic awareness of their surroundings daily, as they perceive their situation, save in subconscious memory a relevant amount, and react subconsciously or instinctively to any stimulus that is perceived. 

Similarly, the concept of conscious-awareness (as I’m using it in this description) would be more related to real-time perception (than conscious comprehension would be). Besides only perceiving surroundings through the senses, and recording in subconscious memory, conscious awareness would also involve the brain making neural connections in memory of how various aspects which are being perceived, interact with 1 another. 

For eg. Someone can drive the same typical repeated route to work, and be only subconsciously aware of what they see while driving. Through habit and repetitiveness, they will still be aware enough to subconsciously react to their surroundings by steering and stopping appropriately without thinking about it or actively considering their surroundings or actions. 

But if that same person is driving in a new city they are visiting, they might be consciously aware as they drive. The difference being, they are awarefully making connections in their mind of factors that they are seeing, and how those factors interact relative to other factors or concepts. They might be paying extra attention to the road names, trying to remember them if they need to find their way around later. This involves making the neural connection between memories of the road signs, and the saved concept that those signs represent that road itself, as well as connecting the concept that in the future they will be driving these roads again, and the road names will be applicable for direction. The person could also be consciously aware of buildings they see, and make the memory connection of the design or height or quantity of the buildings compared to other cities' buildings they’ve seen. 

Conscious comprehension shares the same concept of connection in memory between factors and their relativity in context, but tends to insinuate a more specific concept. Comprehension doesn't necessarily involve active perception, since it can regard a concept saved in memory of the interaction of factors. Comprehension refers more so to understanding the extent of cause and effect of an individual concept or idea. The concept being comprehended can be specific, such as; heat rises, or more generalized, such as; thermal dynamics, or even more generalized, such as; the concept of a concept (as I specified more in a post from 2.5 yrs ago; Carry the Concept).

The differences may not be as significant as the concepts themselves, but overall comprehension tends to involve a more outlined set of parameters of a particular concept of cause and effect, whereas awareness can include multiple concepts which are being actively perceived. Perhaps it can be relevant and sometimes applicable to awareness of circumstances in life, to comprehend these concepts of Conscious Awareness or Comprehension.