Comment by sharkjacobs

How does any article or discussion about this get past 150 words.

"There is no agreed upon functional definition of consciousness, and no way to measure or observe it outside of oneself. It is as impossible to detect consciousness in waves or energy or inert matter or stochastic systems as it is in other living human beings."

Anything beyond that is akin to a theological treatise about the possibility of ensouled animals.