This (from the top Level 5 down) is one of the arguments proposed by the thermostats-are-conscious people, an argument that often leads to panexperientialism an

This (from the top Level 5 down) is one of the arguments proposed by the thermostats-are-conscious people, an argument that often leads to panexperientialism and related theories. Most famously espoused by Chalmers in his classic division of philosophy of mind into hard (consciousness) and "easy" (cognition, etc) problems. http://www.eoht.info/page/panexperientialism http://www.eoht.info/page/panexperientialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness