"Of course, it's true that consciousness may emerge from the complexity of the connections rather than the raw count." Your "of course" is taking as proved som

"Of course, it's true that consciousness may emerge from the complexity of the connections rather than the raw count." Your "of course" is taking as proved something that is not (the consciousness is computation hypothesis). In your benefit you said may so of course you're not convinced. Which is good because people shouldn't believe in things that aren't testable. :) And you talk about birds but there are als unicellular organisms reacting to anestesics, so that doubt should be even broader