Consciousness covers wide ground. Internal state is a necessary part of the machinery of consciousness, it one of the things one is conscious of. McCarthy bre

Consciousness covers wide ground. Internal state is a necessary part of the machinery of consciousness, it one of the things one is conscious of. McCarthy breaks consciousness down to some specifics which would be useful to robots and can be said to be useful partial descriptions of consciouness. The totality of consciousness in ourselves seems greater by some indefinable essentialism - this is not the part of consciousness McCarthy is interested in for robotics. After all the article title clearly states this is about 'their' (the robots) mental state not 'ours'.