I wrote a series of post explaining this, the last of which is here. You are correct that I would possibly consider a vending machine phenomenally conscious, which is why I am often careful to talk about “phenomenal consciousness” rather than “consciousness” in the naive sense.
I wrote a series of post explaining this, the last of which is here. You are correct that I would possibly consider a vending machine phenomenally conscious, which is why I am often careful to talk about “phenomenal consciousness” rather than “consciousness” in the naive sense.