I don't think "conscious" as a binary or scalar variable will ever be a coherent concept. "Raw" consciousness without content has never been demonstrated or eve

I don't think "conscious" as a binary or scalar variable will ever be a coherent concept. "Raw" consciousness without content has never been demonstrated or even sensibly theorized. At the very least, we should add another term, that which the entity is conscious of. Then, I don't see why you would so vehemently deny that an image recognition net is conscious of the images it recognizes. Last I heard lobsters are supposed to be conscious and they only have about 100k neurons.