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>However, consciousness will add a random component to the predictions and might make them completely useless as a tool.

I think I was with you until this part. I think the best way of making sense of what you mean by "random" is that you are presuming that something with consciousness would have agency, and therefore would be open to making it's own independent choices.

Whatever the case with agency, it wouldn't be the same as randomness.