>"the concept of consciousness will probably be considered no longer useful and replaced with something else". Yes. What if, the role of consciousness is reduc

>"the concept of consciousness will probably be considered no longer useful and replaced with something else". Yes. What if, the role of consciousness is reduced for everything, including humans. If machines are conscious, the other way the logic can go is that 'humans must not be that special'. Humans will be reduced in importance. Then, as someone else mentioned, pigs are treated pretty badly, humans will be treated worse. Once machines and humans are equal, it will not 'elevate' machines, it will 'de-value' humans. Humans are already treated as machines. This will complete the transformation.