To Conscious or Consciousness torrent

An English translation of a Dutch article.

Nowhere is this (hidden) dualism as clear as with the term “consciousness”. When referring to the digestive tract, people speak of digesting food and digestion – yet with consciousness, the verb is not even found in the Oxford Dictionary. A Google search of ‘to conscious’ yields no results. Consciousness exists as a noun, but not at all as a verb.
I call this the hidden dualism