The opposition of desire and consciousness is another way of looking at that of will and representation. Will is not the blind force of life but has an intelligence of its own, deep but not rapidly adaptable. Will gives rise to consciousness as an ancillary function, supplemental and subordinate. It is like the development of the computer as a way of rapidly computing artillery bearings. Every revolution begin this way with a function adopting a helper in order to better meet its goals. The helper however becomes more and more indispensable and quietly develops goals of its own. At some point the roles are reversed and the original function is now subordinated to the erstwhile helper.  Consciousness, born of will, is in its image. Both objectify, but consciousness how regards the object of desire, the patronising name it gives to will, as a hallucinatory one, and its own triangulated object as the reality. If you could access the point of view of desire, that is, of will, you would see consciousness with the same troubled contempt with which embodied minds now view artificial intelligence: blind and stupid, but uncannily effective when initialised correctly.