We have fairly good ways of detecting human consciousness now, but not a lot of understanding of why physically or precisely which neural circuits produce consc

We have fairly good ways of detecting human consciousness now, but not a lot of understanding of why physically or precisely which neural circuits produce conscious experience, which is the understanding we'd need to infer what sort of conscious experience is possible for ML models. We also can't reliably detect or predict whether a given animal is conscious or not (related to the problem of minimal viable neurons required for consciousness), and this is the biggest evidence I have that our study of consciousness is far from complete. The best we can do with humans (and maybe animals) is behaviorism and inference on our own personal consciousness at this point, with brain imaging to demonstrate at least gross prediction of consciousness in humans.