Consciousness is about subjective being and experience. From your subjective point of view, you cannot even say if other people are truly conscious or not. It i

Consciousness is about subjective being and experience. From your subjective point of view, you cannot even say if other people are truly conscious or not. It is a really hard problem to figure out if machines can truly be conscious or not. These scientists just have their own working definition of consciousness that allows them to make progress in some direction.