Marx on consciousness

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men. - Karl Marx, The German Ideology

это он написал в 1846-м, ему еще тридцати не было. а Деннет и прочие родятся через сто лет.