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In article <1992Sep22.181940.1611@guinness.idbsu.edu> holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:

>If you have explained why an intelligent
>being will assert that it is conscious, it is very hard to imagine
>that you have not explained consciousness itself. 

I don't see how this can be so unless a lot turns on "intelligent",
because it must be possible to build a simple robot, or to program a
computer, to say "I'm consciousness" from time to time and to
answer "yes" to a range of questions about whether it was conscious.

So it shouldn't be hard to explain why some entities assert that
they are conscious, and even if we could explain why all intelligent
entities would assert they were conscious (which I suspect is what
you had in mind), I don't see why that would have to explain
consciousness as well.