I reacted locally invalid (but didn’t downvote either comment) because I think “computation” as OP is using it is about the level of granularity/abstraction at which consciousness is located, and I think it’s logically coherent to believe both (1) materialism[1] and (2) consciousness is located at a fundamental/non-abstract level.
To make a very unrealistic analogy that I think nonetheless makes the point: suppose you believed that all ball-and-disk integrators were conscious. Do you automatically believe that consciousness can be defined with a computation? Not necessarily—you could have a theory according to which a digital computer computing the same integrals is not consciousness (since, again, consciousness is about the fine-grained physical steps, rather than the abstracted computational steps, and a digital computer calculating ∫50x2dx performs very different physical steps than a ball-and-disk integrator doing the same). The only way you now care about “computation” is if you think “computation” does refer to low-level physical steps. In that case, your implication is correct, but this isn’t what OP means, and OP did define their terms.
I reacted locally invalid (but didn’t downvote either comment) because I think “computation” as OP is using it is about the level of granularity/abstraction at which consciousness is located, and I think it’s logically coherent to believe both (1) materialism[1] and (2) consciousness is located at a fundamental/non-abstract level.
To make a very unrealistic analogy that I think nonetheless makes the point: suppose you believed that all ball-and-disk integrators were conscious. Do you automatically believe that consciousness can be defined with a computation? Not necessarily—you could have a theory according to which a digital computer computing the same integrals is not consciousness (since, again, consciousness is about the fine-grained physical steps, rather than the abstracted computational steps, and a digital computer calculating ∫50x2dx performs very different physical steps than a ball-and-disk integrator doing the same). The only way you now care about “computation” is if you think “computation” does refer to low-level physical steps. In that case, your implication is correct, but this isn’t what OP means, and OP did define their terms.
as OP defines the term; in my terminology, materialism means something different