To say that I barely understand the full implication here would be vastly charitable, but I'll venture out on the limb and say this might imply that consciousness is a sort of meditative "agent" in "deliberate decisions."
So, when one thinks, and thinks about thinking, and then acts on that thinking, consciousness does seem to have a role. So, in this way, perhaps this is the point of consciousness? A recursive, "calculus" of sorts, to mediate (and influence) the notion of "future" to the notion of action?