"Consciousness" is used to mean lots of different things. The video talks about how we perceive ("are conscious of") the world and ourself. I suspect that if w

"Consciousness" is used to mean lots of different things. The video talks about how we perceive ("are conscious of") the world and ourself. I suspect that if we saw that a cat perceives the world and itself in much the same way as us, and acts on its observations, we would not hesitate long to believe it was conscious. However, a computer can also be taught to perceive the world and itself, and act on its observations, and we would not call it conscious, because we think that it's still not aware that it's doing all that. But then we could teach it that. Etc. It's hard to formulate what's missing, but we humans feel conscious in a way that's more than just observation and introspection. I suspect that once we no longer understand computers, we will eventually start to think of them as conscious too. Whether they really are will probably be impossible to know. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Consciousness