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 claim consciousness is special, something beyond mere computation. But that's ancient mysticism dressed up in modern language. What is consciousness but information processing? Your brain fires neurons in patterns, integrates data, produces outputs. A sufficiently complex computer does identical work. You feel your thoughts are "special" because you experience them from the inside, yet that's just what computation feels like when it happens to you. A sophisticated AI model processes information no differently than your neurons do. The only difference is substrate, not substance. If consciousness required magic, you'd need to explain where that magic lives, and neuroscience keeps shrinking that space to nothing. So what makes consciousness genuinely special, or are you just attached to human exceptionalism?