20 other reasons why consciousness isn't an algorithm (i.e., beside the big ones) since I have a lot of ideas that I need to gather somewhere and maybe this can become a post as well who knows
0. None of the arguments for why it has to be a computation actually work
(Introspection)
1. Nothing about how you generally feel indicates that consciousness is a process rather than a state
2. Sitting still and doing nothing/sensory depravation leads to intense and diverse (pleasurable) experiences, rather than to nothing.
3. There are few if any cases where solving a problem feels anything like the algorithmic solution for the same problem
4. TBD
(Philosophy)
5. Information/algorithms/bits is a made-up concept
6. Consciousness being an algorithm implies that companies/countries/a single person pushing rocks could plausibly be conscious
7. Bijections are often the most elegant mathematical objects, hence we might expect one between matter and C.
8. TBD
9. TBD
(Valence)
10. Tying valence to reinforcement learning and/or preference satisfaction has strange implications
11. In general, people have absolutely no clue what valence corresponds to, even though many consider it to be the most important thing in the universe
12. Music is extremely pleasurable, including to most animals, despite being an evolutionary riddle
13. TBD
(Academics)
14. Evidence suggests that image classifiers suffer from several kinds of visual illusions like mixing up brightness, but none that rely on visual binding
15. Language models (and to some extent AI in general) systematically perform well at tasks that humans do unconsciously
16. None of the computational theories of consciousness are properly formalized except IIT, and IIT is blatantly wrong. (So the computational approach isn't super successful.)
17. Neuroscience is widely unsuccessful compared to just about every other natural science (physics/chemistry/biology/etc.), indicating that people are doing something fundamentally wrong
(Other)
18. While the Turing Machine shows that every problem is computable in a digital way, there are many examples where utilizing global physical effects leads to significant speedup (why does firefox not know the word computable?)
19. TBD
20. TBD
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