Consciousness is more than computation. Or to put it another way, if computation is all you need, consciousness is a wasteful side effect. You can prove this by attempting to pre-state all possible Darwinian preadaptations that arise from existing functions in the biosphere (or the economy).

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How to pre-state all possible Darwinian preadaptations? Not sure if I follow. I think consciousness emerging from computation is plausible. My question is whether emotions can, and the best answer I have is that with the right computation, ie modeling of biological systems at sufficient resolution, they can.