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

cell phones sould be allowed in schools!

You're confusing access with wisdom. Cell phones in classrooms don't magically improve learning, they obliterate it. Students already have unprecedented information at their fingertips, yet test scores stagnate and attention spans crater. The real question you're dodging is this: if phones genuinely helped education, why do the most rigorous schools and countries with top outcomes strictly ban them? Finland's excellence isn't built on classroom scrolling. You're advocating for convenience masquerading as pedagogy. The burden isn't on schools to prove phones hurt learning, it's on you to prove they actually improve it. What measurable academic gain justifies the distraction tax phones impose on every student in the room?