That is one of the most interesting things to me about this. Consciousness seems to arise from the communication and computation in and between sensory inputs,

That is one of the most interesting things to me about this. Consciousness seems to arise from the communication and computation in and between sensory inputs, so do computers feel anything? I can understand the logic of input 1 causes output 2 and output 5 to do something, providing the objective indicators of consciousness, but the internal experience puzzles me. Why do we feel? Why do our pain or pleasure receptors result in agonizing pain or pleasurous feeling instead of just throwing messages saying “you are experiencing 57% pleasure” or “pain at 25%”? Why do we see what is going through our visual system? Why are we conscious at all? Why aren’t we just autonomous? Systems of inanimate material seem to have this bizarre innate property where they create subjective ephemeral forces from objective inanimate atoms. Which raises the question: do computers feel?