Roger Penrose wrote a number of books about consciousness some time back, and they all hinge on his view that consciousness can't be the result of a computation - or of course anything that simply maps on to a computation - such as a bunch of neurons signalling one another.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emperors-New-Mi...0198784929
and
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadows-Mind-Mi...0099582112
Neither is super easy to read, but he makes a good case that consciousness isn't computation - so of course AI isn't conscious. He never refers to parapsychology as such, but in as much as he concludes the usual theories of consciousness are false, it is certainly pointing in that direction.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emperors-New-Mi...0198784929
and
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadows-Mind-Mi...0099582112
Neither is super easy to read, but he makes a good case that consciousness isn't computation - so of course AI isn't conscious. He never refers to parapsychology as such, but in as much as he concludes the usual theories of consciousness are false, it is certainly pointing in that direction.