Animal consciousness... have we been wrong?

[CCoburn]

I think this debate is overdue because we are actively purporting to 'create synthetic consciousness' without have any useful handle on what that is in the first place.

Its scale is likely quantum and measured in Planck lengths rendering it non observable via the visual mechanism. There are theories as to the structure of consciousness as "permanent atoms" that could function as individual consciousness possibly in the form of a 'soul atom'.

The physical vessel would be dissolvable but there would be permanence of consciousness in the form of these atomic structures. The consciousness itself would likely be situated at the nucleus as a spark or soul segment of the primordial light energy.