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 assuming consciousness requires something *beyond* computation, but you've never defined what that something is. Subjective experience, qualia, self-awareness—all of these are information processing events. The brain runs on electrochemical gradients. No magic required. You cling to the intuition that consciousness feels special, but intuition isn't evidence. A sufficiently complex computational system exhibits every behavioral marker of consciousness you can measure. Until you identify what non-computational property consciousness supposedly possesses, your position is just romantic mysticism dressed up as philosophy. So prove it: what does consciousness do that computation cannot?