There’d be no reason to suspect anything could be conscious, if it weren’t for the observation that a pile of meaty goo can be conscious. Given that meaty goo

There’d be no reason to suspect anything could be conscious, if it weren’t for the observation that a pile of meaty goo can be conscious. Given that meaty goo can be conscious, and assuming that this arises from physical properties rather than some form of actual magic, it is reasonable to guess that the consciousness arises from what the goo does rather than from other properties such as pinkness or gooiness, so if we can cause another physical system to do the same things then it’s likely to have the same subjective experiences while doing it.