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The problem of consciousness is one of the mostimportant problems in science as well as in philosophy. Thereare different philosophers and different scientists who define itand explain it differently. As far as our knowledge ofconsciousness is concerned, ‘consciousness’ does not admit of adefinition in terms of genus and differentia or necessary andsufficient condition. In this paper I shall explore the very idea ofmachine consciousness. The machine consciousness has offeredcausal explanation to the ‘how’ and ‘what’ of consciousness, butthey failed to explain the ‘why’ of consciousness. Theirexplanation is based on the ground that consciousness is causallydependent on the material universe and that of all, consciousnessphenomena can be explained by mapping the physical universe.Again, this mechanical/epistemological theory of consciousnessis essentially committed to scientific world view, which cannotavoid metaphysical implication of consciousness.