> even if, under the hood, they are just algorithms whirring away in subjective oblivion I'm always confused by statements like this. Like, unless we're assumi

> even if, under the hood, they are just algorithms whirring away in subjective oblivion I'm always confused by statements like this. Like, unless we're assuming Cartesian dualism or something, humans are "under the hood, just algorithms whirring away in subjective oblivion". Whatever is happening in our information processing architecture to produce subjective consciousness isn't mystical and is, at least in theory, something we can measure and analyze. So this universal assertion that "human special, machine simple" doesn't seem warranted to me.