I agree, evaluation of consciousness is another problem entirely. However, the point I'm making is that even assuming an agent/thing is capable of achieving co

I agree, evaluation of consciousness is another problem entirely. However, the point I'm making is that even assuming an agent/thing is capable of achieving consciousness, it would have to have a suitably complex environment and the capability of forming an independent feedback loop with that environment to even begin to display conscious capability. If the agent/thing is capable of achieving consciousness but is not in a suitable environment, then we'd likely never see it doing things that resemble consciousness as we understand it. Which is something we have seen occur in the real world many times.