excellent find einbar...I love learning more and more about the most mysterious organ in the world, the brain, which incidentally, we are all carrying as a natural part of our mechanizm...and then, we don't even understand a quarter of what the brain does and how it functions...amazing, isn't it?

We have no proof in a scientific sense that anyone but the thinker in conscious, it is just unreasonable to be any other way. We can't think someone else's thoughts, or get 'inside their head.' The problem with the consciousness of A.I. isn't the definition, but the idea that if it was conscious how would we know? For all we know the internet is conscious, but smart enough to keep it's circuits shut.
It would know that if we discovered it was conscious, it would be torn to shreds.