When i saw the title, i expected this post to be somebody's 'stoner philosophy' of what conciousness is. But i really like this idea. If true, it means conciousness is naturally emergent as soon as networks can be efficiently trained to represent complex enough functions. And we might not be too far away.

How do you define conciousness? Like the voice in your head? Are you saying that voice is essentially the predicted copy of you I.e. what you predict you would do in the current situation? I think this could explain why we have a concious and unconscious mind, the unconscious is the actual brain, the conscious is just our prediction of what we would do in the current situation.