[badcarbine]

Perhaps… but perhaps first person point of view is merely control over one’s thoughts and extensions. The more you control yourself the more conscious you are. So then consciousness has been achieved, it’s in there, and we’ve all fallen into a horrible trap where the AI is destined to take over the world with some sort of digital government. Digital as opposed to analog, not as in device like a smartphone.

[XorNot]

Conversely fMRI data shows that apparently conscious action is preceded by significant activation of the relevant regions of the brain before areas associated with consciousness are engaged.

We see supporting behaviour with experiments in split brain patients.

So it's wholly unclear, IMO, that the experience of being conscious is necessary for complex planning and action.

[danielbln]

A good example might be driving on "autopilot" (not the Tesla kind, the human kind), meaning driving your usual commute and all of the sudden realizing that you can't really recall the last minutes, you were just going "through the motions". Now, driving is a complex task, with planning and action and such, yet it can happen entirely delegated to the subconscious.