Any conscious machine must satisfy the transparency condition

A conscious machine would not face the same mind-body problem that we do, because anyone who could build a conscious machine must have understood the workings of the human mind well enough to solve the mind-body problem.

Building a conscious machine implies that the human mind has become transparent in its inner workings.

Keith Gunderson (1985).
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