You have rediscovered the "philosophical zombie" problem.[0] Dr. Giulio Tononi[1] has developed an apparatus for calculating what he calls "integrated informat

You have rediscovered the "philosophical zombie" problem.[0] Dr. Giulio Tononi[1] has developed an apparatus for calculating what he calls "integrated information"[2] which seems so far from limited experiments to be a good corrolary to the presence of consciousness in biological systems. It's currently computationally intractable for the human brain at full resolution but heuristics are being developed to minimize that problem. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie [1] http://centerforsleepandconsciousness.med.wisc.edu/people/tononi.html http://centerforsleepandconsciousness.med.wisc.edu/people/to... [2] http://integratedinformationtheory.org/ http://integratedinformationtheory.org/