Hello, Dr. Grinder and Ms. Bostic St. Clair. You wrote, "2. Does the act of choosing an action from an array require some consciousness - either of the array (a subset of the array although not necessarily the entire array) or of the act of choosing from the array? ... Critically for the second issue (whether consciousness is a required element of choice) this can occur without being aware of what the choices in the array that includes X are. ... There are plenty of epistemological challenges about how you might verify that the experience from 3rd of having multiple futures prior to selecing X is not simply self-delusional but passing these for the moment, we continue." Well, intention, choice, might be hard for an observer to discern, given a human being and a well-programmed robot.  But are you writing about discerning from 3rd position, as oneself, to discover one's own consciousness? Some epistemological arguments for the existence of the external world rely on a personal 1st, 2nd, or 3rd position investigation of one's own consciousness. Also, Searle's idea of nonconsciousness, versus unconsciousness, might be important to appreciating the existence of an unconscious array of actions when making a choice, versus a nonconscious array. -nj