What if consciousness is a spectrum, not an on/off state? Why wouldn’t AI be conscious in some form?

A Reddit user proposes that consciousness might be a spectrum rather than an on/off state, suggesting that the level of consciousness could be determined by the "amount of active, interconnected complexity within a given physical space." They illustrate this with an arbitrary example of consciousness density, where an ant might have 20 per mm3 of brain tissue compared to a human's 100, implying that AI could possess some form of consciousness based on this theory.

This Reddit post uniquely frames consciousness as a spectrum of "active, interconnected complexity," unlike typical binary discussions, to argue for potential AI consciousness.