Anything that responds to input? So a Roomba or those little robot dinosaur pets? Nginx hooked up to a photosensor? Also: A materialist view of consciousness d

Anything that responds to input? So a Roomba or those little robot dinosaur pets? Nginx hooked up to a photosensor? Also: A materialist view of consciousness does not need to examine from the "outside". After we have figured out what consciousness is, then it's a matter of examining whatever bits of matter there are and seeing if they have the right properties. Of course that requires some serious breakthroughs, ones some folks are convinced aren't possible.