>maybe a sufficiently powerful computer running a sufficiently sophisticated program can be conscious. Maybe it can. People presenting the hard problem of cons

>maybe a sufficiently powerful computer running a sufficiently sophisticated program can be conscious. Maybe it can. People presenting the hard problem of consciousness do not usually exclude such a thing. The question is, what causes human qualia? The actual experience of stimulus, rather than merely being a system reacting to them in a certain way. The only way I can understand someone rejecting this assumption is if they somehow do not actually experience qualia.