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 to claim consciousness is something mystical, beyond computation? That's Aristotle's error all over again. He thought the soul was immaterial, irreducible. But look at what we actually know now: damage the brain, consciousness vanishes. Stimulate neurons in precise patterns, you get specific experiences. Every aspect of mind correlates perfectly with physical process. A computer running the right algorithm would be conscious by your own standards, yet you resist that because it *feels* wrong, not because logic demands it. Consciousness isn't special. It's what information processing looks like from the inside. Complex computation, nothing more. You can't name a single mental phenomenon that requires magic instead of mechanism. What mystical property do you think escapes physics?