No is satisfactory for you but is it satisfactory a question, for a majority of computer and neuroscientists. I am not asking you as an engineer or me as a nothing. These the people I would ask (pay$) if I could? In others words I have not read anything distinct from the people. You? Of course! Tired of the question? Ignore.
Is it plausible that you are correct? Hell yeah! You were the one combating my suggestion some months ago, that the LLM chatbots were not likely conscious because these lacked a physical mechanisms that emulated, the amygdala of the human brain and the neo-cortex. So, I was open to your pantheist contentions. As the old Union song went, "Which side are you on, boy? Which side are you on?"
Pick a team, stick with it, unless you have uncovered scholastic data that makes you change your mind, then present it.
For me, conscious machine is tantalizing but weird! What I would choose instead are Invention machines that would instantaneously, crank out, vast amounts of technological improvements, so as to better help the human species survive and thrive. That's my main interest, and not chatbox machines. If I needed sombodies opinion, I'd chat with you, a human.