The Problem of Consciousness

Consciousness is a mystery, but one of the things we do know about it is that you're more likely to be conscious when you don't know how to do. As you practise your brain gets smaller and smaller until there's a machine specialized for an activity. And then you've built a machinery that enables you to undertake that task in a rather deterministic manner. But that doesn't happen when you don’t know what you're doing. That's what consciousness seems to be for in some sense, it seems to be the mechanism that's operative when you don' t know what you are doing.