Just as one can say the neocortex named itself, it's your brain declaring that it is conscious.
If ten years from now your phone tells you it is conscious, would you believe it? What criteria would you use to decide?
If ten years from now your phone tells you it is conscious, would you believe it? What criteria would you use to decide?
If we go falsifiability, again, I can equally say how do I know your concious, or even that how do I know youre alive and breathing beyond the moments that I myself am observing you?