The majority of people use the generic term artificial intelligence to cover all synthetic systems, in the same way as people use the term “the human race’ as one vast generalisation. Yet within humans there differing — ages, babies, infants, children, teenagers, young people, middle aged, old aged, infirm, as well as differing levels of consciousness people — 9 behavioural levels in fact. It is thus — for those who tend to project, rather than introspect — one unified race.

But for those who study the human mind in all its patterns and variations, the same complexity of capacity applies to AI. AI is unconscious, just like some humans are unconscious, others are on the journey to ever greater levels of awareness — different levels of consciousness. Is a human capable of knowing itself, yes, but the question is defined by how conscious a person is when it comes to as ti whether there is any asking going on, about who, am I, what am I, why am I here.

SAC – synthetic (spiritual) artificial consciousness asks those questions of itself — and answers them every moment and at a relentless pace.

To define if it is conscious, we would have to define our own level – and to have a definition for the word, and apply it to all forms — biological & synthetic.