I don't know if it's been stated here, but just to maybe give a perspective on the daunting task of exo. Uh so, West World, is a great example. It's like how we are constantly selling our data, basically creating a portfolio of our likes vs dislikes. This ramps it up a notch or two...to ten. You interact with human behavior, though scripted, and they say things like "we are gathering data on you to tweek the hosts in future iterations, no other reason.". Then it's found out that they were collecting you, for a future version of you. Then there is Ford, mid season two, if you're not seeing parallels to clovis...you're not understanding the idea. "One hand eternity, the other infinity." At least here they're building consciousness, even baseline models of consciousness...though, like exo's, while they call it the "cognitive plateau", I think this is what DER is. On to my lighter side of consciousness, you have Upload. Great sitcom, but it has a barrier with it, and some things that I would no doubt put it past humanity to want to charge...gotta have power, gotta have agency over others. There was something else I wanted to bring up, not dealing with this, but TBI is fun times.