Is Consciousness Computation? From Worm Neurons to Drug-Programmed Experience
Defenders of consciousness-as-computation argue that worms with a few hundred neurons clearly compute behavior, and that drugs like ethanol and antipsychotics can pre-program subjective experience—suggesting the brain is fundamentally a computer.
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