This is just yet another disappointing take on "I feel like there's something mystical about consciousness, that I can't actually define or describe in any meaningful way, but it's definitely impossible for it to be anything computers can do!"
This is the same kind of nonsense that leads people to search for some kind of magical "quantum" thing in the brain that makes the special mystical consciousness effect, because of some vague intuition that it can't come from the normal high-level behaviour of neurons.
The obvious position that should require significant evidence to contradict is that whatever consciousness is, it's a mundane physical effect that can obviously be implemented with a computer. Nobody has yet made any kind of falsifiable predictions about mystical non-computational souls or whatever, and I'm going to continue dismissing this bullshit as pseudo-scientific nutjobbery until there's actually something testable or falsafiable.
Name one specific concrete measurable effect that you believe consciousness can exhibit and computation can't, otherwise this is pointless masturbation.
> This is the same kind of nonsense that leads people to search for some kind of magical "quantum" thing in the brain that makes the special mystical consciousness effect, because of some vague intuition that it can't come from the normal high-level behaviour of neurons.
It's this very behavior that I call consciousness-of-the-gaps. It shifts the unexplainableness of consciousness into the unexplainableness[1] of quantum mechanics. If the public did have a comprehensive understanding of quantum mechanics, consciousness would be rebased upon another unexplainable phenomenon and the process would repeat.
1. In this case, it aligns more with the public's perception of how quantum mechanics works rather than the rigorous physics version, but that misinterpretation only strengthens the argument.
This is the same kind of nonsense that leads people to search for some kind of magical "quantum" thing in the brain that makes the special mystical consciousness effect, because of some vague intuition that it can't come from the normal high-level behaviour of neurons.
The obvious position that should require significant evidence to contradict is that whatever consciousness is, it's a mundane physical effect that can obviously be implemented with a computer. Nobody has yet made any kind of falsifiable predictions about mystical non-computational souls or whatever, and I'm going to continue dismissing this bullshit as pseudo-scientific nutjobbery until there's actually something testable or falsafiable.
Name one specific concrete measurable effect that you believe consciousness can exhibit and computation can't, otherwise this is pointless masturbation.