I tend to agree, although I think the crux is in the definition of consciousness. Where neuroscience and computer science are aligned is that they are both (li

I tend to agree, although I think the crux is in the definition of consciousness. Where neuroscience and computer science are aligned is that they are both (like all science) concerned with observable and falsifiable truth. But consciousness as a concept is hopelessly subjective, because it's self-evident to us, and we can only recognize it in our earth animal kin. Imagine an alien traveler comes to earth, will we consider it sentient or not? Does it depend on whether it is a robot or a naturally evolved organism? That seems like an odd distinction. Does it depend on how much it has a brain similar to ours? Hmmm... Ultimately no matter how much we peel the neuroscience onion, the philosophical zombie question can never be falsifiable. We take it on faith that we are not zombies because each of us knows our own consciousness, and then by Occam's Razor we extrapolate that to humans and other earth animals to which we instinctively relate, but beyond that there's nothing to hang your hat on.