This is fantastic research about detecting consciousness in the human brain specifically, but I haven't come across much discussion about detecting consciousnes

This is fantastic research about detecting consciousness in the human brain specifically, but I haven't come across much discussion about detecting consciousness in general, in arbitrary arrangements of matter, and by simple inspection (by poking it and seeing how it reacts) Poking it is the traditional way (eg behavioral tests), but that limits detection to only those conscious phenomenon we succeed at poking, and simultaneously succeed at detecting a reaction from (eg it doesn't take 10,000 years to react, or emits chemical pheromone signals that aren't detected/recognized, or communicates via micro-range RF, or something). I call this the "intelligent lifeform sensor" problem, after the implementation from Star Trek. Consciousness is clearly an information theoretical phenomenon that occurs in matter. There should be some sort of general information-theoretical description that applies to matter (be it cephalopods, or rocks, or fungal networks, or exploding stars, or....)