>But what does "greater depth of consciousness" really mean? What are the metrics one uses to compare counciousnesses? Completely agreed. The meta-question I’m

>But what does "greater depth of consciousness" really mean? What are the metrics one uses to compare counciousnesses? Completely agreed. The meta-question I’m asking is, how will we tell if we’ve built the right metrics? The answer used to be “if it passes the Turing Test,” but we’re rapidly superseding that answer and its replacements. Maybe the answer will become obvious as our knowledge of the brain advances. Or, maybe we’ll be satisfied with a simplified model of consciousness that mostly works but is wrong in subtle yet critical ways, like Newtonian physics without theories of relativity. I suppose we’ll just have to keep asking questions, and aggressively pushing the limits of what machine intelligence can achieve relative to humans.