We simply cannot doubt our consciousness. We know qualia---internally accessed qualities that make up the phenomenal character of experience. Understanding the nature of consciousness is the Philosophy of Mind's underlying impetus for sagacious study of unanswered questions. At the crux of these questions lies the Mind-Body problem: What is the relation between the mind and the body? Is our existence completely physical, completely mental, or a confluence of both realms? 


The personal computer was made with the vision of extending and improving the human mind and human condition: ``the ideal of the then-hypothetical personal computer was a brain supplement, enhancing human memory and amplifying human reasoning'' \cite[7]{victor}. If computers can bestow such raw augmentation such that software we write can act as extensions of our minds, then code is a manifestation of ideas that can interact!


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One of the major themes of the past century has been the growing replacement of human thought by computer programs. Whole areas of business, scientific, medical, and governmental activities are now computerized, including sectors that we humans had thought belonged exclusively to us. \cite[13]{artofcomp}.
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Dr. Knuth delineates the fact that our lives are becoming enveloped by technology. Undoubtedly, you probably use a computer or smart device on a daily basis. Here are some thought-provoking questions for you:


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\item does the computer expand your mind?
\item does the computer extend your physical life?
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Your consciousness is the sum of the neurological patterns and circuitry that embody the knowledge you've accumulated over your lifetime. Computers facilitate the transmission of ideas and concepts that are more complex than words. If software exists as representations of our consciousness, then through software we can express our ideas to others in ways that words may not have been able to otherwise.


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Every computer program is a model, hatched in the mind, of a real or mental process. These processes, arising from human experience and thought, are huge in number, intricate in detail, and at any time only partially understood. They are modeled to our permanent satisfaction rarely by our computer programs. Thus even though our programs are carefully handcrafted discrete collections of symbols, mosaics of interlocking functions, they continually evolve: we change them as our perception of the model deepens, enlarges, generalizes until the model ultimately attains a metastable place within still another model with which we struggle. The source of the exhilaration associated with computer programming is the continual unfolding within the mind and on the computer of mechanisms expressed as programs and the explosion of perception they generate. If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs! \cite[10]{sicp}
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What Humans do with Computers