[tasuki]

> reasonably assume that your experience is similar to mine

You could be the only conscious being in the universe and all of us just zombies: you have no way of knowing.

What's it like to be a monkey instead? Dog? Bat? Tree? We don't know.

No one's saying the graphics card is conscious. I could imagine the graphic cards could give rise to consciousness. But - crucially - I don't know. And neither do you.

You say you're conscious - where in you does the consciousness reside? Surely not the left pinky? What makes you you?

[butlike]

What if everything's conscious, we just can't understand the communication mechanisms at different levels? o.O