Puzzle - Consciousness Explained

Anyone else read "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennet? His theory is that consciousness is a linear stream, coalescing, bubbling up from a massively parallel set of ad hoc committees of connections. Putting aside whether I paraphrased the theory correctly, or whether the theory holds water, what I am wondering is HOW? Let's say you had a bunch of computers on a gigabit network, each with a neural net, plus some grammar rules and a dictionary (a theory I've heard a couple of times is that grammar is more hard-wired than other functions.) How would such a network of neural nets "say" a single word, followed by another word, bubbled up from a different NN, and so on (a simulated conscious stream) without any central authority or observer? (It is ok to have a global set of rules, perhaps dynamically). Now I am not saying that finding the right set of rules that made this parlor trick work would constitute consciousness. But it would be at least a start - add motivation, direction, theme, analogy... Some smart people I've talked to think this theory might be a projection of western-, or male-, or scientific-thinking, that many humans do not think linearly like this at all, but more holistically. Dennet counters this by arguing that consciousness came AFTER language, which is more genetically hard-coded.

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Human and Machine

One objective of invention is to make a task more efficient or affective. One level of evolution, natural or otherwise, is the application of invention to all human tasks. In that respect machine will be made to complete most human tasks, if not all. So in the end the differences will be very small. I am not even sure we could claim that some organic matter that is part of us will not be part of them because if it is found that, for instance, an organic hand and its mechanisms play tennis better than a non-organic, well then there will be machines with organic hands perhaps in the very same likeness as ours. I suppose the differences will be things which we posses that are not essential for any given task, or things which they posses which we are not physically able to. Perhaps the only thing we will posses that they will not, with some certainty, is a soul. But we have yet to determine what of any real value this thing has anyway so it's neither here nor there.