The way I imagine any successful theory of consciousness going is that even if it has a long parts (processes) list, every feature on that list will apply pretty ubiquitously to at least a tiny degree. Even if the parts need to combine in certain ways, that could also happen to a tiny degree in basically everything, although I’m much less sure of this claim; I’m much more confident that I can find the parts in a lot of places than in the claim that basically everything is like each part, so finding the right combinations could be much harder. The full complexity of consciousness might still be found in basically everything, just to a usually negligible degree.
The way I imagine any successful theory of consciousness going is that even if it has a long parts (processes) list, every feature on that list will apply pretty ubiquitously to at least a tiny degree. Even if the parts need to combine in certain ways, that could also happen to a tiny degree in basically everything, although I’m much less sure of this claim; I’m much more confident that I can find the parts in a lot of places than in the claim that basically everything is like each part, so finding the right combinations could be much harder. The full complexity of consciousness might still be found in basically everything, just to a usually negligible degree.
I’ve written more on this here.