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.

Your intuition that consciousness is "special" relies on a ghost in the machine you can't define. You feel subjective experience, sure, but feeling something doesn't make it metaphysically unique. Every property you attribute to consciousness—integration, self-awareness, intentionality—emerges from computational processes. The hard problem isn't a feature of consciousness itself; it's a feature of your introspective blindness. You can't peer into your own neural architecture, so you mistake complexity for mystery. But mystery isn't magic. Show me one aspect of consciousness that violates computational principles, and we talk. Until then, you're defending specialness through ignorance, not evidence.