INTENTIONALITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS o Searle links intentionality to awareness of intentionality, in that intentional states are at least potentially conscious. In his 1996 book, The Conscious mind. david chalmers notes that although Searle originally directs his argument against machine intentionality, it is clear from later writings that the real issue is consciousness which Searle holds is a necessary condition of intentionality. It is consciousness that is lacking in digital computersINTENTIONALITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS  Searle links intentionality to awareness of intentionality, in that intentional states are at least potentially conscious. In his 1996 book, The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers notes that although Searle originally directs his argument against machine intentionality, it is clear from later writings that the real issue is consciousness, which Searle holds is a necessary condition of intentionality. It is consciousness that is lacking in digital computers