[blamestross]

If you could actually internalize and act on all that knowledge at once, vs being a "roving eye" over your own internal state, then yes I think that would be reasonable.

Consciousness is just a bootstrapping mechanism for intelligent behavior and meme distribution. Once an entity is smart enough without it (Likely via an effective set of cultural memes and a good system for propagating them), it will become vestigial much like the genetic selection pressures it displaced as the primary means of adaptation.

I recommend "Blindsight" by Peter Watts for a discussion of that. (It work of fiction but it is a well researched with citations and embraced by the neuroscience community work of fiction)