For those interested in the intelligence to consciousness topic, MIT Max Tegmark's Life 3.0 might still be the best primer. He argues that consciousness is an e

For those interested in the intelligence to consciousness topic, MIT Max Tegmark's Life 3.0 might still be the best primer. He argues that consciousness is an emergent property of intelligent systems (ability to store, compute, learn). From a pure physical computation standpoint, there doesn't seem to be a hard rule that says that consciousness can't be based off of inorganic materials.