I also incline to the view that experience is fundamental, but I'm not really sure that you mean by the term "information system". Who is deciding what counts a

I also incline to the view that experience is fundamental, but I'm not really sure that you mean by the term "information system". Who is deciding what counts as information? In everyday usage we usually speak of something containing information if it helps a person decide how to act. Perhaps agency is one of these "certain" properties that these special information systems need to possess. There does seem to be a lot of overlap between things that we grant the assumption of consciousness to and things that we grant some form of agency to.