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Word salad! What really is the point of Philosophers? Imagine a philosopher getting away with saying "According to Descartes a solar panel will never achieve over 95% efficiency because rocks in the desert" The sentence rightly doesn't make sense but because consciousness is a fuzzy concept people get away with making hard statements that sound truthy while in essence spitting out nonsense that is no different to GPT-3 babble.

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It's not word salad, this is the logical conclusion of the Church-Turing thesis. If you think it's false, you should present some arguments against it.

And now you are adding johurt dressing to the salad.

Computers are just fancy ways to locally reduce entropy. They do not exist outside the laws of the universe. Computation is not something special. It's happens! Everything is "computation". To say then that consciousness is not computation suggests there are speciaö physical laws of the universe not accessible to observation or measurement but somehow explainable by philopshers and priests.

It seems to me that calling facts you don't like a "salad" or "yoghurt" is a mental equivalent of covering your ears.

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