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Maybe you can then use slow-motion videos of neurons firing to also illustrate why humans aren't really conscious despite other claims.

This. It seems like the commenter who posted this point lacks some fundamental knowledge of how the brain operates.

For all he knows, it is conscious. But the time scale and size limit it's faculties to a degree [to put it mildly] far too removed from the ability of our senses to perceive.

If anyone is convinced of that solely by a video of a wooden computer, perhaps you've found a person who never became conscious in the first place.

Why "classical" computers? Is there some other kind of computer that isn't emulatable in wood that could become conscious? Hard to know exactly what you mean here.

They're referring to quantum computers, because for some reason a lot of people seem to be convinced that 1) consciousness is made out of magic and 2) quantum physics is magic so therefore 3) "consciousness" requires "quantum"

I don't know what could become conscious; but it seems pretty obvious to me some sticks banging together cannot be.

https://xkcd.com/505/