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We cannot accidentally construct a machine that is conscious if we have determined that consciousness is beyond simple mathematical calculation. I am not talking about our ability to determine whether a given machine/being is conscious. I am talking about the self analysis, analyzing our own experience and pondering whether that could be recreated trough material means. I don't believe it can, for the reasons I have extensively stated. The notion that my own experience could be in any material way recreated is absurd to me and I don't believe anyone who ponders it and follows my line of thought can easily dismiss my conclusion.
And as for losing consciousness due to physical trauma, it may only be the processing of the brain that gets stopped, not the beholder, who is simply deprived of information to behold (sight, hearing, touch, sense of time, whatever). I also call into question how conscious we are when we are presumably unconscious. I remember when I was young I used to sleepwalk, and every time I woke up and my parents told me about it I didn't remember any of it. I figured from that that sleepwalking must be an unconscious behavior. One time, as I was sleep walking, I started slamming the door and woke up everyone, who in turn woke me up from the middle of my sleep walking. The interesting thing about this is that I remembered all of it. I was, to my later surprise, conscious the whole time. From this it follows that in the past I had mistaken memory loss for unconsciousness. This I find fascinating because it demonstrates the possibility of our soul being "awake" even when our body isn't.