1 min readFeb 4, 2020
An autonomous vehicle avoids a pedestrian by steering around them. It is conscious?
A robot trained to recognize and report color looks at a wall and tells you that it’s red. Is it conscious?
(Your insistence on consciousness is because of this misperception that there is a subject there. There’s no subject there. There’s just what is happening, unwitnessed. That can include seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, but it’s not for anyone or about anyone.)