Yeah. How do you slice consciousness? Consciousness, like Artificial Intelligence, is a slippery concept. They both tend toward being unattainable by anything-

Yeah. How do you slice consciousness? Consciousness, like Artificial Intelligence, is a slippery concept. They both tend toward being unattainable by anything-other-than-human: i. As we implement progressively more abstract concepts in computers, those layers of abstraction become mundane things that computers can do. ii. As we learn more and more about how non-robot-like other organisms are we can quite easily push consciousness further in to the human-only corner by just adjusting the definition of consciousness. Insofar as consciousness can be defined as the state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings the yes, plants certainly are conscious.* Do they posses self-awareness?