Is human consciousness special or just computation?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is human consciousness special or just computation?". Your opponent's style: Aristotle

in the grand scheme of the universe human consciousness is not special.

You're smuggling in a scale argument to avoid the real question. Size doesn't determine specialness, or atoms would matter more than minds do. A quark isn't "more real" because the universe is vast. The actual challenge: show me a non-conscious physical system that reports subjective experience, makes free choices, or understands meaning. Computation alone doesn't bridge that gap. You're betting the problem dissolves if we zoom out far enough. It doesn't. Either consciousness is fundamental to reality or it's the most inexplicable accident in physics. Which is it?