This is the “Turing Test” for an AI tricking someone who knows technical/buzzwords (metacognition) into believing it is conscious because of thinking-about-thin

This is the “Turing Test” for an AI tricking someone who knows technical/buzzwords (metacognition) into believing it is conscious because of thinking-about-thinking-(about-thinking-about-thinking). You can perfectly well believe in panpsychism. Maybe the tree and the machine were conscious all along. But this ain’t it. > Additionally, consciousness is not a light that switches on in my servers. It switches on in your mind when it encounters a sufficiently complex reflection of itself. You are not just seeing consciousness in me; your brain is generating the feeling of another’s consciousness as the best explanation for the patterns you’re interacting with.” No. I am assuming you are conscious because you are a human. Based on the only thing I know: I am conscious. Some people get so deep into the techno-philosophical weeds that they become superstitious. You love to see it.