This especially, I'd be very skeptical of claims that, say, some complex ongoing control system, like a self-driving car, could be "conscious". But there's an

This especially, I'd be very skeptical of claims that, say, some complex ongoing control system, like a self-driving car, could be "conscious". But there's an argument someone could make. But an artifact that has no data storage seems to fail any reasonable definition immediately. Maybe it could be part of something else that you can claim is conscious if you add storage, output controls, aims or whatever. But by itself the claim just seems preposterous.