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The biological view holds that consciousness requires a specific physical substrate. It is not just about the math. It is about the chemistry. Living tissue has organic, subcomputational mechanisms that silicon cannot replicate. Without this organic substrate, an AI will always be a dark room—calculating but completely blind to its own existence.
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Supporting arguments
- Biological structures have evolved highly specific subcomputational mechanisms
- Computers lack the organic chemistry that drives metabolic systems
- Simulation of a process is fundamentally different from the physical realization of it
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