 Access is tied to attention. For example, the Global Workspace theory of consciousness understands consciousness in terms of access  (section 3.1)  where the accessibility of a perceived object requires attention to the object (attention puts an object, namely a representation of it, in the global workspace). So, the necessity of attention for phenomenal consciousness is entailed by the necessity of access for phenomenal  consciousness.[5]  In contrast, recurrent processing theory holds that there can be phenomenal states that are not accessible  (section 3.2).