nope, the other way around. Thinking you can 'get' anything from computation is religious thinking, because it introduces a sort of dualism. As the author corre

nope, the other way around. Thinking you can 'get' anything from computation is religious thinking, because it introduces a sort of dualism. As the author correctly points out, computation is not a 'thing that 'does' anything, it's a label for a subjective observation about a state of physical matter. Taking the naturalistic position is to accept that matter is all there is. Consciousness is not divorced from the stuff it is made out of, and cannot be abstracted into some cloud of computation. It is a sort enlightenment era rationalism gone wrong which is also why it's so popular among folks in this industry. It actually comes with its own theology while we're at it. (Immortality, raising the dead, final judgement, and so on). A person computes consciousness no more than a falling pen computes gravity. Even a literal computer does not 'compute' anything other than in the sense that human observers impose meaning on a bunch of electrons buzzing around, and the language makes sense to explain how it works.