 The question of whether attention is necessary for consciousness has been answered in various ways. One answer is given by those who think that lots of unattended items appear in consciousness. A different answer is given by those who think that only some unattended items figure in consciousness. A third answer is given if we think that unattended items figure in consciousness only in special circumstances. There is some evidence that, independently of any philosophical commitments, people differ as to which of these views they find plausible (Schwitzgebel, 2007). There are also some theories (e.g., Watzl, 2017) in which attention is necessary for ‘creature consciousness’ in the sense that every conscious creature must be an attentive one. Such views need not entail that attention to an object is necessary for the conscious perception of that object.