The Conscious Versus Unconscious Distinction

In the lenitian tradition, representationality is the mark of the mental not consciousness. The main job of the mind is to produce mental oppresentations that indicate stuff about the external world. And that's what the mind is doing. Once you define the mind in terms of representationality, and not in terms of consciousness, you can start thinking about unconscious mind. So foring this erer, scientist started being interested in in consciousness,. centists and philosophers. At the time, the distinction was not so so relevant in many fields.