This article starts with the wrong assumption that programs/computers need to be deterministic. They are clearly not. Monte Carlo tree search is no t really det

This article starts with the wrong assumption that programs/computers need to be deterministic. They are clearly not. Monte Carlo tree search is no t really deterministic, nor is the training if large neural networks. To me conscious has more to do with whether the system is able to reflect on is self. In that sense very simple systems (with not much intelligence ( could be conscious