pyrrho's Journal: Beyond Good And Evil: aphorism 3

To me being conscious has a direct meaning... it's to view yourself as an object, that is, as the a thing in the external world. One's personal estimate of an unbiased view of one's self.

But of course, conscious thought is also intentional thought. Nietzsche points out that it too is an instinctual activitity. The common predjudice is that they are opposite, but in truth, conscious thought is a kind of survival instinct.

Again, I think this is commonly realized on one level, but that the previous bias (that they are opposite) is more lived by.