These kinds of analyses frustrate me to no end, because there’s an implicit metaphysical assumption that consciousness is somehow independent of our interaction

These kinds of analyses frustrate me to no end, because there’s an implicit metaphysical assumption that consciousness is somehow independent of our interaction with the world. Now, I don’t necessarily believe that we will be able to reconstruct what took the universe, physics, chemistry and evolution literally billions of years. However, I have yet to encounter an argument against the wider understanding of computation as systems with inputs resulting in outputs affected by mutable states, which then corresponds to what plants, animals and humans are on a fundamental level. To me it seems like the burden of proof is on the people who claim that consciousness is somehow metaphysically independent from the physical matter that makes up a human, animal, plant or computer. I guess we currently draw certain lines between these four things, especially between humans and the other three. But I guess I struggle to identify that difference as something metaphysical. Although I don’t feel like I know enough to claim that this is anything more than a superficial idea…