Futurist. Certainty. Eh. They're back propagating future
   certainty to us.

   In short, "In the future we will build [x] that will be
   self-aware and believe it's conscious but won't be. I know this
   is true because we are self-aware but not conscious either but
   believe we are."

   It's a stretch. It sounds plausible but we have to accept a LOT
   of ideas about ourselves in order to make his argument work.

   Is it POSSIBLE that we are constructed consciousnesses? Sure.

   For example, we hold several views of self simultaneously.

   There's the me looking out experiencing.
   There's the me I envision other's seeing.
   There's the dialogue that's happening in the phonological loop.
   There's the various roles dialoging within the phonological
   loop.

   Now is it funhouse mirrors bouncing back and forth in a physical
   way?

   In some sense perhaps.

   Yet the emergence of this sense-of-self is vacuous in his
   argument.

   He's saying, "We'll advance so far that it'll happen. Because it
   will happen that way, it stretches back in time to describe us
   as we are."

   It's resting on nothing, ultimately.