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I think it's a mistake to consider consciousness a high-level property. Two electrons interacting are conscious, albeit briefly and in a very limited way.
Is that a fact?
If consciousness is a lower level property...is it casually active?
And if it is a lower level property...why can't I introspect a highly detailed brain scan?
This weakens the concept of consciousness so much as to make it no longer meaningful.
I don't think so. It requires you to be much more precise about what it is that you care about when you are asking "is system X conscious?"