Discussing consciousness can be really difficult because the word is used in different ways in everyday language. Consciousness defined as the intrinsically su

Discussing consciousness can be really difficult because the word is used in different ways in everyday language. Consciousness defined as the intrinsically subjective quality of experience (Qualia [0]) is what is considered impossibly difficult to explain (maybe even necessarily outside of the scopy of natural science) by some. It's also what makes some people consider the crazy out-there ideas seriously... Anyway, my point is, explaining self-symbols that an agent uses to model its own role in the world is a completely different problem. Some people use the term "hard problem of consciousness" [1] to distinguish the former from the latter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness