Actually, I would also recommend the essay "What Color are Your Bits?" as relevant: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php

It's about the assignment of properties like copyright to strings of bits, where the property is not a computable function (or indeed, a function at all) of the bits themselves, but still has meaning. I think it's an interesting perspective relevant to the question of assigning the property of consciousness to strings of bits, or physical processes computing on strings of bits. (I don't think it's an answer to the question of whether one can or should do so! It just brings up interesting points.)