Seth doesn't understand the nature of consciousness. ONLY a living organism will ever be conscious, by design. Life flows from a non-four-dimensional physical dimensionality to the physical universe we currently conceive of as 'four dimensional' reality, though whatever that dimensional realm is fashioned as, it still exists in space and time, by desgin--with a different expression of dimension Time hallamrking that realm, probably. The manufactured machines of calculation will always be limited to the four dimensional reality of their components.
For a better understanding of consciousness than Seth has acquired, I can reccommend Part One of even parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSyV9pscyI
If humankind ever learn how to add that 'other' dimensionality to their calculating machines, those machines will no longer be machines, they will be living organisms of some sort.
THX THX.