"Consciousness is the loneliest place in the universe. No one can share it with anyone. Try as I might to explain my consciousness to you, it comes irreparably filtered through your own. You can’t see it for yourself. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if you thought it didn’t really exist. We tend to feel
 the same way about bots and their consciousness. We can manipulate what it might be by adjusting code and changing sets of training data, but we still can’t access it directly. "