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> So it is conscious but we know where it comes from - it comes from the computational power and interactions with the world it can do.

How little computational ability is required to define something as conscious? Even a brick reacts to stimuli, albeit in the same completely predictable (to our high-powered brains) way that a simple robot does.

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My point exactly. Why is Mercury a planet and Pluto isn't? Because we arbitrarily decided on the threshold. Universe doesn't care, there's nothing in the laws of physics about Pluto or planets it's just a special case we focus on.

Let me try another definition:

Consciousness is a feedback loop we can empathize with.

"We" and "empathy" are doing a lot of work in that definition.

At least the arbitrariness is obvious :)

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