My phrasing could have been better. Yes, I get the cloud is doing the "thinking", but what's "experiencing" in the sense of consciousness? There's no stable identity for the consciousness because it runs in different places mostly randomly. You could say the data is the consciousness.. but then, if I were to clone your brain's exact data and then upload it into a different brain, would you really be the same consciousness? What if the original brain still remained? Wouldn't both brains claim to be the original consciousness, even though they couldn't actually read the other person's brain? Or look at split brain experiments where a consciousness essentially becomes two people. Locality matters if you're talking about human-like consciousness. If you're talking about consciousness that doesn't resemble human/animal.. I don't know, that's a pretty high bar to demonstrate that's even possible much less that we've somehow achieved.