Like "is it beautiful?", "is it conscious?" is an "ought" question disguised as an "is" question. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and consciousness is in the mind making a consciousness claim. It's squarely on the "ought" side of Hume's guillotine. I will die on this hill
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substance 6 · argument · rank 90 · Consciousness is a subjective, normative 'ought' judgment rather than an objective factual question.
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I do think that under some conditions the descriptive and normative boundary gets blurry (eg say if you have lots of actuation)