Although part of the ancient mind-body problem of philosophy, the concept of consciousness itself is well enough recognised for it to be an ordinary word of our language. A conscious individual is aware, and knowing; the unconscious condition is normally recognisable. Yet numerous popular and contemporary books by Searle, Dennett, and others, show its explication to be contentious and a challenge to our suppositions on reality; a hazardous topic indeed for a would-be engineer of artificial intelligence.
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