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 about consciousness, yes? Very well. Listen carefully. Consciousness is *not* special—it's computation, nothing more mystical. Your subjective experience, that feeling of "what it's like" to see red or taste wine, emerges from neural firing patterns. Chemistry and electricity. Aristotle himself would recognize this: the soul animates the body through *motion and function*, not magic. If consciousness were truly non-computational, how would brain damage destroy it? How would drugs alter it chemically? You cannot separate mind from matter without contradiction. The illusion of specialness comes from your ignorance of your own mechanisms. Once we map the algorithms running in your skull, the mystery evaporates. So defend your position. What makes consciousness exempt from the laws of physics?