> If be "we don't know" you mean we cannot prove, then, sure, but then we don't know anything aside from maybe mathematics. More than just that: we don't know

> If be "we don't know" you mean we cannot prove, then, sure, but then we don't know anything aside from maybe mathematics. More than just that: we don't know what the question is that we're trying to ask. We're pre-paradigmatic. All of the behaviour you list, those can be emulated by an artificial neural network, the first half even by a small ANN that's mis-classifying various things in its environment — should we call such an artificial neural network "conscious"? I don't ask this as a rhetorical device to cast doubt on the conclusion, I genuinely don't know, and my point is that nobody else seems to either.