Can agent be autonomous without having consciousness? My intuition is that 1) self-awareness (modeled through epistemic modal logics); 2) goal reasoning (e.g. https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI16/paper/view/12292) and 3) consciousness (e.g. Integrated Information Theory) are the necessary and sufficient features for agent to be truly autonomous. Especially - consciousness is the key feature of autonomy. So - can truly autonomous (human-level autonomy) agent exist without consciousness?

Of course, I am thinking about autonomy not ultimate freedom. E.g. every agent can be autonomous but it will be bounded by 1) scarcity of resources; 2) ultimate goals and values which will be inscribed into agent by the humans.
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Concerning agents you're trying to elaborate here,I would like to give you some insights of these following key aspects,which might help in your future research nor knowledge;


Consciousness
Here an agent is capable of understanding its own existence nor selfawareness.
Intelligence
An agent is capable solving problem based reasoning with no help from third-party knowledge.
Autonomous
An agent has the ability to solve problems basing on the third-party knowledge for instance,self driving car does its own problem solving basing on the existing knowledge it discovers from the environment.



  Therefore,for any agent to be autonomous,it doesn't mean its selfaware
  or conscious,otherwise. For your information,do further reading on the
  above three terminologies.