I get the feeling that research is circling around consciousness arising from quantum effects inside nerve cells. If it’s not that, and it’s just an emergent property of complex neural networks, then:
smaller animals are less conscious (note, I’m not saying intelligent) than humans, and
we are all fucked, because AI definitely is/will become conscious, and when that happens Terminator will come true.
I get the feeling that research is circling around consciousness arising from quantum effects inside nerve cells. If it’s not that, and it’s just an emergent property of complex neural networks, then: