Mindfulness or Mindlessness?

[The Grand Nudger]

The thing is Nudger, there is a question mark attached to qualia. Sure, the wavelengths of light perceived as red must look like something. But why do they appear red?

Perhaps they don't.  Perhaps they just look like something.  

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When we're born, our brains most likely do the same thing, the scientists said. Our neurons aren't configured to respond to color in a default way; instead, we each develop a unique perception of color. "Color is a private sensation," Carroll said.

https://www.livescience.com/21275-color-...tists.html

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Where do you stand on the back of our toilets being "slightly conscious." I feel like I want to draw the line there. Even though I can agree that, especially in a behaviorist sense, the back of our toilets are "aware."

I'm not sold on the notion that "awareness" entails conscious experience. Mind you, I'm not ruling it out entirely. But, I feel like questions are warranted. Those are the questions I'm asking.

Neither am I, I think it's just one building block.  I'm much more sold on the notion that attention is the thing we're talking about when we talk about consciousness.  Does the back of a toilet seat attend to anything? An attention control model can, for example, attend to some of the concepts or contents within a body model, and, to the concepts being manipulated by that control model in time. The body model is aware of it's dimensions and environmental data, but an attention model is specifically and explicitly aware of it's awareness and can report on and manipulate elements of that awareness.

Or, at least, in machines. Maybe we can't do that. I mean that seriously. It may be that a machines apparatus provides a more cogent, coherent, or competent form of x than our own. We might lack an attention control, even though we definitely have a body control. Or, as is so often the case, our body and attention model both bear the stamp of our lowly origin. I probably won't outrun a car, either.