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.
Emotions are the result of an arms race between freeloading psychopaths and well behaved reciprocal organisms.
This went over my head