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Permutation City by Greg Egan - it's fiction, but honestly it will do as good a job as any textbook on the subject to force you to really think about your beliefs about the nature of consciousness.

I'm reading the Bicameral Mind book by Jaynes and regardless of the "mind-body problem solution" it posits it has a good overview on the problem of consciousness at the beginning of the book

We do NOT understand our own consciousness so it's idiotic to project what we don't even understand to inanimate objects.

This is superstition and anti-rationality. The right answer can always be "we don't know" but this is deciding "nope, we can just make shit up because it feels good!"

Basically taking civilization backwards by hundreds if not thousands of years!