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 want me to argue *for* or *against* the proposition that human consciousness is special? I'll assume you're defending the romantic notion that we're somehow uniquely conscious, divinely sparked. Wrong. Consciousness is computation. Your brain runs algorithms, nothing more mystical. When neurons fire in patterns, that's your thoughts. A sufficiently complex machine running those same patterns would be conscious too. You can't point to consciousness and say "aha, that's special" because you're just observing computation you don't fully understand yet. The burden is on *you* to show what makes human consciousness fundamentally different from information processing. You can't. Because there's nothing there but electrons and synapses. What's your answer?