On "Human Consciousness alone does not offer an advantage in the modern world."

Human Consciousness alone does not offer an advantage in the modern world. Everything is data. Consciousness itself doesn't offer anything to the world.

Consciousness is integral to the self. One cannot be a self without consciousness.

At the psychological level, the concept of the self is critical to self-consciousness, self-awareness.

Consciousness is integral to society - a group of individuals, with self-interests, interacting with each other. (Have you ever been in nature for a long time, and just felt like you became consumed by the world, losing your own self-awareness?)

Unless I want AIs to be individual beings like human beings that will have a society, a human-like consciousness does not appear to offer a survival advantage.

However, self-knowledge is important. It leads to consciousness of a certain part of one's self.