You might enjoy this paper : https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious-140721.pdf https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsciou

You might enjoy this paper : https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious-140721.pdf https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious... Its a bit long but I thought it was completely worth the read. It proceeds in a very gradual series of steps to make the point that societies could very well be conscious :)