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What is consciousness, and what kinds of things are conscious?
I've seen this debated many times, and I suspect that people are merely arguing over the meaning of a word that does not happen to carve reality at the joints.
What is it in the physical universe that you call consciousness and which might be present or absent in a computational device? What prediction is being made by any of the theories 1 through 3 in this post, that I can go out and test?