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are you sure? If conscious experience was a computational process, could we prove or disprove that?


If someone could show the computational process for a conscious experience.


How could one show such a thing?


If it can't be shown, then doesn't that strongly suggest that consciousness isn't computable? I'm not saying it isn't correlated with the equivalent of computational processes in the brain, but that's not the same thing as there being a computation for consciousness itself. If there was, it could in principle be shown.




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