The mind models the mind, from particular to general and back again, and it models is attribute, consciousness, as a kind of perception, a perception of perception. This is practical but erroneous, and most likely the erroneousness is practical too. For example consciousness is not independent of its object, is not built on the subject-object duality, and so does not require anything like object constancy. Much of what is naively credited to consciousness are actually achievements of mind and it is the interest of mind's functioning that its processes be misunderstood. Mind makes models and has the ability to enter into those models and to push them to breaking point. A broken model, however, is a kind of success. It is impossible to model the mind's true agenda.