[ballark]

I largely agree with you, but answer the reducibility problem. At what point does a network become complex enough to form consciousness? I think the writer of this article likely believes that there is no such point, that all information processing is consciously experienced phenomenon on a sliding scale of complexity

[thecupisblue]

When it understands that it is a network and can rework itself and its surroundings, working as a homogenous unit interacting with its environment.