/sci/ - Science & Math

Okay, open question for the room. Mostly for materialists but immaterialists can answer too.
So let's say a perfectly human, P-zombie type robot is undergoing assembly. Each component of its brain is being synthesized, the eyes are being attached, the robotic nervous system is being slowly hooked up, piece by piece.
Now if the materialists are right there is some point at which the robot will "wake up" and become a conscious being. But at what point would that happen? How would it happen and what would it "feel like"? Obviously this is speculation, but it's food for thought.
What would happen if the robot wasn't perfectly human? If you didn't give it a hippocampus? Or if you made it akinetopic?

I find myself agreeing that consciousness is, if not entirely an illusion, at least an entirely material phenomenon, but if I take that argument as far as it can go, ultimately it would seem that consciousness has no clear beginning and no clear end. Which brings me to my second question (1/2)