If it's merely the ability to perceive and react to the environment then a Tesla is conscious. I'm just concerned that it's a very heavily loaded term that impl

If it's merely the ability to perceive and react to the environment then a Tesla is conscious. I'm just concerned that it's a very heavily loaded term that implies a lot of things that perception or awareness don't to the same degree. Philosophy programs, youtube channels and magazines don't do special episodes on the "problem of perception" because nobody would care (well in specialist journals maybe), but they do on consciousness. The only thing that makes discussions of consciousness interesting is the ambiguity in meaning, and the fact that some of it's meanings include self-awareness. It seems to me that those like Hoffman promoting a simplistic perception model and calling it consciousness is a kind of sleight of hand to make it seem cooler and more profound than it actually is.