Matt believes that a man-made machine with consciousness will show that "the difference between us and everything else (in terms of consciousness) is only in degree. It means that consciousness should be relatively common in the universe."- My position has been as a doubter. With the brain's 100 billion cells and innumerable connecting dendrites, axons, and synapses now it is found that individual neurons have two levels of decision-making.-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914172650.htm