> Do you believe it's possible for a human being to exhibit all the external characteristics of consciousness without an internal conscious experience? Nobody

> Do you believe it's possible for a human being to exhibit all the external characteristics of consciousness without an internal conscious experience? Nobody knows whether conscious experience is a requirement or not to "exhibit all of the external characteristics". It's possible that the only way to get from state N to state N+1 is to include the consciousness function as part of that calculation. A counter to this would be that a lookup table of states would produce the same external characteristics without consciousness. A counter to that counter would be that the consciousness function is required to produce state N+1 from state N. The creation of the lookup table must have invoked the consciousness function to arrive at and store state N+1. The thing we just don't really know is whether state N+1 can be derived from state N without the consciousness function being invoked.