Computational functionalism faces the same problem it criticizes in biological naturalism
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-30
The thread argues that biological naturalism is often criticized for failing to specify which physical systems count as "biological" in the consciousness-relevant sense. But the author realizes intrinsic/causal computational functionalism has the same flaw: it says consciousness depends on computation, yet never specifies which kinds of computation correspond to consciousness.
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