If any computer today is conscious (or can become so), then any Turing computer ever made is also conscious and always could have become so. The fundamental op

If any computer today is conscious (or can become so), then any Turing computer ever made is also conscious and always could have become so. The fundamental operations burned into the silicon in your Casio pocket calculator from 1974 are no different from the ones available on the cloud computers that power LLMs. All those operations are known in advance and designed by people. They are products of man's consciousness, but cannot ever attain self-awareness or volition.