> there could conceivably be brains that perform all the same sensory and decision-making functions as ours but in which there is no conscious experience. That

> there could conceivably be brains that perform all the same sensory and decision-making functions as ours but in which there is no conscious experience. That makes no sense to me. What is consciousness but a mechanism for making decisions? A brain that has all of our decision making functions would be conscious by definition.