There is no clear distinction between consciousness and mind yet they are not interchangeable terms. To become conscious of something - what it is and what you are conscious of in regard to it are in the mind. Consciousness arises in the transition of an object between two parts of the mind - put simply between the object as unknown and the object as known. Consciousness knows nothing since it has no repository for knowledge. But everything in mind can become conscious and when this occurs it seems as though to be what it is is had to be always already conscious. Wherever consciousness looks it finds only consciousness, that it finds looking.