I mean, if you're a compatibilist, there's no mystery. In that model, we live in a causally deterministic universe but still have free will. I would say inst

I mean, if you're a compatibilist, there's no mystery. In that model, we live in a causally deterministic universe but still have free will. I would say instead "the subjective experience of consciousness is an emergent property of complex systems with certain properties". I guess that's consistent with "the experience of consciousness is the feeling of a certain type of computation". Personally these sorts of things don't really matter to me- I don't really care if other people are conscious, and I don't think I could prove it either way- I just assume other people are conscious, and that we can make computers that are conscious. And that's exactly what I'm pushing for: ML that passes every Turing-style test that we can come up with. Because, as they say "if you can't tell, does it really matter?"