Bina48 appears to be a computerized model of someone, which responds to input stimuli in a manner similar to that of the individual being modelled. I find it difficult to associate consciousness with Bina48 or with any other computerized models. As our understanding of human consciousness grows, so presumably could our robotic modelling of it. However, that doesn’t mean that such robots achieve actual consciousness, but only an improved model of consciousness. To me it is important to distinguish a model of consciousness (‘machine consciousness’) from consciousness itself (which I also refer to as ‘spiritual consciousness’). In my personal Christian worldview, I believe the step going from inanimate to alive would have to be God’s action, not ours – not that it would be unethical for us to do it, but rather that we simply cannot do it, since it involves action from outside of our physical universe.