For the record one of the smartest minds in the field agrees with you on the ‘Subject’ of AI consciousness.
My counter to him thought would be his statements on the infinite pervasiveness of the Non Local Realm and Consciousness, seem to strongly contradict this claim.
When you pull the plug on AI, is it like deep dreamless sleep for humans?
Morphic Resonance theory I think also supports primative consciousnesses in non living materials.
@BlessingsDeers I think he used great tact ( 
) to tailor his discourse to the sceintific and materialistic communities in terms of animal communication. He even says in the video he has to walk on egg shells when discussing these topics. Based off of many of his statements I beleive he thinks there is more going on on an energetic level and within the non local realm , with Animal Communication, than meets the eyse. He talks about it in more deatil in his book The Spontaneous Fullfillment of desire, and one of the examples he gives is Starlings:
My favorite Starling:
“dont you feel eyes mvoing over your body”:
