> I'm a computationalist in the philosophy of mind and suspect that consciousness is an emergent property of certain computations. I'm not a philosopher of any

> I'm a computationalist in the philosophy of mind and suspect that consciousness is an emergent property of certain computations. I'm not a philosopher of any variety and this always seemed like a much more plausible scenario to me than some kind of consciousness magic sauce. It is pretty amazing to watch the intellectual contortions people will twist themselves into to avoid reaching this conclusion. Like deep down they are certain their lived experience can't possibly be an effect of purely physical processes, but they need to couch that belief in sufficiently convoluted words that they can convince themselves they aren't just talking about souls.