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On the Levels of Awareness eBB, 213),

Han Man is the being who (1) feels; (2) thinks (or believes): and; and (3) thinks that he thinks (or believes that he believes).  (2) is what may what may be called "existential understanding" which as such is constitutive of constitutive of the very being of man, who  who is precisely the being who understands himself understands himself and therewith understands reality itself.  This existential understanding may understanding may be either authentic or inauthentic--but in either case it case it involves an understanding of self, others, and the whole. Inauthentic  Inauthen­tic understanding is an understanding which in one way or another qualifies qual­ifies the sola in sola gratia, i i.e., treats self and/or others as significant sig­nificant or of worth independently of the relation to the whole which alone which alone endows them with worth.  Even so, inauthentic understanding is understanding is understanding of self, others, and the whole, however distorted or pervertedper­verted, or, as it were, eccentric it may be.  Since existential understanding under­standing is identical with the human mode of being--is the distinctively human way of existing--it is instantiated somehow instantiated somehow in every distinctively human distinctively human act, either  either as authentic or inauthentic; and this choice is the ever-present decision, the truly eschatological decision, at stake in every moment of human existence.  Although it is not itself feeling, but understanding, it is the level of understanding closest to feeling, and is the proximate relation of man to the concrete: it is, one may say, man's man’s way--as man, that is as the being who thinks as well as feels--of being concrete being  concrete. But  But if, as seems reasonable, "human consciousness is consciousness is essentially linguistic," i.e., man precisely at level (2), at the level the level of existential understanding. . •. .

"The doctrine of degrees of consciousness" (BH, 213).