I was thinking about something similar to this idea recently, but replace "United States" with a large corporation. In a sense the United States is conscious,

I was thinking about something similar to this idea recently, but replace "United States" with a large corporation. In a sense the United States is conscious, but the "experience" of being the United States, or Exxon mobile, or Google, is so far removed from the experience of being a person or even a rabbit that it doesn't matter. i.e. It's a metaphor more than anything else. We take in information through eyes, ears, etc made up of cells. We think in a brain, experience emotions, inhabit a body. The United States takes in information through organizations, people, computers, etc. It thinks and makes decisions via all sorts of different systems and processes. It doesn't have a physical body, it has different parts and material all over the place made of many different elements. Perhaps it's true we only value forms of consciousness similar to our own. I don't know, I don't philosophy well. This paper was thought provoking.