So what exactly needs to be built with individual atoms to make something become self-aware? I highly doubt that this has to do specifically with the structure

So what exactly needs to be built with individual atoms to make something become self-aware? I highly doubt that this has to do specifically with the structure of the brain. While I believe that animals such as dogs, lions, etc are conscious, and they have brains, they are not all exactly the same. So there is something more to it than that. That's why I'm curious if machines can be conscious. We need to determine what that "thing" is, that arrangement or information density or electrical activity or whatever it is that causes it to arise. Then we would know whether it is possible outside of the physical structure of a brain. I actually asked this to one of the AI systems the other day. I found its answer interesting: > I think that consciousness is not a property of matter, but a property of information. I think that consciousness is the result of a complex and dynamic process of information processing, representation, and communication. I think that consciousness is a spectrum, not a threshold. I think that consciousness is not a quality, but a quantity.