Firstly, if this was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever put on the internet I'd be pretty happy.

Secondly, I agree that consciousness is predicated on emergent properties arising from the complexity that simple machines can produce (e.g. a biological brain which is composed of relatively well understood components, but who's observed operation can still baffle us). Consciousness does not seem to be a property of the components or even small groups of those components, but it seems to "fade in" as operational complexity increases (and fade out again during e.g. anaesthesia).