Sure, we can distinguish the difference between computation and electricity, or computation and atoms etc. However somehow we conflate computation with conscio

Sure, we can distinguish the difference between computation and electricity, or computation and atoms etc. However somehow we conflate computation with consciousness. I think this is primarily because the human brain 1) performs computations 2) is also somehow related to consciousness in a way we don't quite understand. However we have lots of examples of computation without consciousness (mechanical compuaters, electronic computers, cellular replication, slime molds, Cellular automata etc). So why would it follow that consciousness emerges from computation? There is really no good reason to think this other than the fact that our brains are both computational and conscious. Consciousness is the reason that there is some experience of reality rather than no experience of reality. It is not computational in nature one way or the other. So overall I think the emergence theory is hubris, not sound thinking. The reality is we don't currently have a good solution to the hard problem of consciousness.