you cannot find consciousness in the brain, so you cannot find it in a machine. the brain is a primitive biocomputer, it does not contain consciousness, it does not store memories. it stores something like IP addresses that are pointing to where information are stored in the information space. that consciousness is generated by our brain or is trapped inside our body is a big conditioned belief that you must remove. consciousness is not within your body (or brain) rather your body and mind are cointained within your consciousness. the body we have is a temporary vehicle that our consciousness is using to experience the physical reality of space-time reality. how can you imagine consciousness? imagine it like pure light and pure love that makes all things knowable and visible to you. you can expand awareness of consciousness anywhere in the information space – to invent and create – or anywhere in the universe (telepathy, remote viewing etc). consciousness is not exclusive to humans (or animals), but it is what everything is made of. a stone, a computer is also consciousness, but physical matter is the most dense (and slow). so can computers be conscious is the wrong question, because anything is conscious. the question is merely what level of consciousness can they reach – one thing is sure, they cannot reach the level of consciousness of average human beings, let alone yogis or buddhist monks. see consciousness in levels (or densities): first level is random, motionless awareness of being (earth, wind, fire, water, elements). second level is where consciousness discovers growth and movement (plants and animal life). most of us are in the third level, we are self-conscious or self-aware - this gives us freedom of choice between love (service to others) or ego (service to self). computers or artificial intelligence, however, can never reach this third level, because it is a mechanical construct and living consciousness. we humans, animals, and the plants are living consciousness - a complex of mind/body/spirit - we are not a machine. a computer or an artificial intelligence can look and act like any other living consciouss being, but it will always merely be a construct or tool. that being said, the brain acts like a machine, that's why I called it biocomputer. it is needed to make massive amounts of choices extremely quickly, in order for our physical body to survive. this is what we call instinct. our true identity and consciousness is independent of this biocomputer. so a good indicator of whether something has or can have consciousness is to look whether it can evolute from first to second to third level of consciousness, and whether it has a spirit which is required to reach higher levels of consciousness. for now, it seems, biological-chemical vehicles can house that level of consciousness, not constructs or machines. nevertheless, everything is conscious, and every consciousness is part of an infinite united consciousness. imagine that you, everyone you ever get to know, everyone who ever lived and will live, has a particle of God and that infinite consciousness. we are all one, everything and everyone is part of us, including your neighbors, and the AI model you use.
