What's your opinion on such matters?

There's no logical necessity making HA's superorganisms unconscious in a human sense - and in some rudimentary sense they are conscious of their environment - but I don't happen to think that human social organizations have the right kind or right amount of complexity to be 'conscious'. They're more like slime mold fruitings or kelp at this point.

[misrepresentation deleted] Evolution will continue. But as the substrate of human-memetic organisms is so flexible, this actually limits their ability to pass on data in a predictable way. Their life is more like fire than ours is; possibly they reflect what biological life may have been like at its beginning, before DNA.

Changing the nature of inheritance changes the way evolution takes place, but it doesn't alter the evolution itself: the accumulation of persistent traits in a population across time.