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English: A conscious awareness system (without heavy shading) embedded for control purposes in an otherwise unconscious brain It forms a unitary and dedicated subsystem set off from the rest of the brain by the heavy black line, beyond which neural traffic is assumed to take place without consciousness. Broad white arrows mark interfaces across which neural information may pass without entering consciousness. The physical brain, which – except for its phenomenal subsystem – is devoid of consciousness is part of the physical body, in turn part of the physical world, both depicted in black in the figure. This embedding of a phenomenal space reflecting the circumstances of a physical body in a physical world for purposes of remote control of that body on the part of a physical brain lacking direct access to body and world is the ”nested ontology” referred to in the title of the diagram.