Consciousness is Not a Computation (2012)

> The simple act of following instructions – which is all a computer can do – never results in actually knowing what those instructions mean, or what it is doing.

The fundamental mistake so many people make is assuming that somehow "real" consciousness is special, and different from this -- that we're not just complex chemical systems blindly following instructions like a computer.

How do you know this? Because your brain has been wired to "feel" like it has agency?