@LesleyBarnett@sigmoid.social
I see, that is a respectable position and I of course don't know which one is correct.

If consciousness is foundational and causal it is a part of physics (a core property of the universe that affects it). This would mean that a conscious brain has *something* fundamental that makes it conscious.

This position has a big drawback for you (I've seen on your website that you are into conscious AI) - we can't code that foundational *something* into AI, thus AI probably can't be conscious.
Similar to how we can code a simulation of gravity, but that isn't literal gravity.