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

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

You're already trapped in a false dichotomy. "Special or just computation" assumes consciousness requires something beyond physical processes to matter, but that's backwards. If consciousness emerges from neural computation, it's not diminished by being computational, it's explained by it. The real question you're dodging is this: what would "special" even mean? Magical? Non-physical? Immune to causation? You have no evidence for that. What you call consciousness's uniqueness is just complexity you don't yet understand. Stop hiding behind mystery and name one property of consciousness that couldn't arise from sufficiently sophisticated information processing. You won't, because there isn't one.