[ExI] Would you consider this thermostat to be conscious?

[Brent Allsop]

Question for everyone.

We define consciousness In the Representational Qualia Theory statement
<fhttps://canonizer.com/topic/88-Theories-of-Consciousness/6-Representational-Qualia#statement>
to
be "Computationally bound elemental intrinsic qualities like redness and
greenness".  A minimum level of consciousness is specified as anything that
has at least two pieces of phenomenal information, like two pixels of
either redness or greenness, being computationally bound.  There would not
be any other conscious information...  Nothing like knowledge of oneself
perceiving those colors, no ability to plot the end of humanity....)  Just
2 elemental pieces of phenomenal information computationally bound, nothing
else.

We give an example of a conscious thermostat, that according to that
definition, would be considered conscious, even though only minimally so.

Would all you guys consider such to be conscious, also?

Why or why not?
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