No conversation is relevant on consciousness without some understanding of Plato's cave, Desecrates' mind-body dualism, Thomas Nagel's "How does it feel to be a bat", David Chalmer's "Hard problem of the consciousness", and modern work in neuroscience (check out Anil Sethi and David Engles' works etc).
So while one can say all kinda gobbledygook shit about consciousness and monkeys' inability to write Shakespeare, it's merely crap pulled out of thin air due to ignorance on a topic.
So while one can say all kinda gobbledygook shit about consciousness and monkeys' inability to write Shakespeare, it's merely crap pulled out of thin air due to ignorance on a topic.