What if instead of consciousness being a yes/no, it's in terms of CU (consciousness units). Anything with >0 CUs is conscious. A bag of sand has 0 CUs, while a human has 1 CU. A grasshopper might have 0.0001 CUs, though, which is > 0.
Well sometimes the cables I have to untangle more often then I wanted seem conscious to me (in an evil kind of way); so, the question then becomes, how do we measure the CUs and, moreover, whether all CUs are created equal.
