I wonder sometimes if we grant undue weight to "feeling" and "consciousness". A plant reacts to external stimuli in easy-to-understand ways. Sure, we are more c

I wonder sometimes if we grant undue weight to "feeling" and "consciousness". A plant reacts to external stimuli in easy-to-understand ways. Sure, we are more complicated than that, but why are phototropisms just a curiosity while "feeling" is special? What if "feeling" and "consciousness" is nothing special at all, just extremely intricate and sophisticated clockwork that, like any sufficiently advanced technology, appears to be magic?