Well if you make that your definition then of course it isn't, it's pointless talking or writing articles about, so I still think it's a silly fearful protest.

Well if you make that your definition then of course it isn't, it's pointless talking or writing articles about, so I still think it's a silly fearful protest. I just checked Wiktionary, which indeed says it's the 'concious arrangement [of whatever medium]', so it just becomes the same question as whether AI can be conscious, which I think is just pointless semantics, it hinges entirely on how you define it, there's no deeper meaning or interest for that debate to reveal.