Methinks the discussion suffers from lacking the distinction between consciousness-as-property: “subsystem C of system X is conscious-in-X” and consciousness-as-ontological-fact: “C exists in a conscious way” . Consciousness (of “C” in “X”) is option-1-computed in the sense that it is a Platonic entity (as a property of platonically considered “subsystem C of system X”). It is option-2-computation in the sense that all such entities “C” could be said to perform various computations in “X” (and it is the ensemble of computations that the property detects). To draw moral conclusions (“C exists in a conscious way”), one needs to take X=reality.
Methinks the discussion suffers from lacking the distinction between consciousness-as-property: “subsystem C of system X is conscious-in-X” and consciousness-as-ontological-fact: “C exists in a conscious way” . Consciousness (of “C” in “X”) is option-1-computed in the sense that it is a Platonic entity (as a property of platonically considered “subsystem C of system X”). It is option-2-computation in the sense that all such entities “C” could be said to perform various computations in “X” (and it is the ensemble of computations that the property detects). To draw moral conclusions (“C exists in a conscious way”), one needs to take X=reality.