Why do you say, “Besides, most people actually take the opposite approch: computation is the most “real” thing out there, and the universe—and any consciouses therein—arise from it.”
Euan McLean said at the top of his post he was assuming a materialist perspective. If you believe there exists “a map between the third-person properties of a physical system and whether or not it has phenomenal consciousness” you believe you can define consciousness with a computation. In fact, anytime you believe something can be explicitly defined and manipulated, you’ve invented a logic and computer. So, most people who take the materialist perspective believe the material world comes from a sort of “computational universe”, e.g. Tegmark IV.
I’m happy to grant that last sentence for the sake of argument, but note that you originally just said “most people,” full stop, without the massively important qualifier “who take the materialist perspective.”
Given that Euan begins his post with an axiom of materialism, it’s referenced in the quote I’m responding to, and I’m responding to Euan, not talking to a general audience, I think it’s your fault for intepreting it as “most people, full stop”.
I’m happy to grant that last sentence for the sake of argument, but note that you originally just said “most people,” full stop, without the massively important qualifier “who take the materialist perspective.”
Given that Euan begins his post with an axiom of materialism, it’s referenced in the quote I’m responding to, and I’m responding to Euan, not talking to a general audience, I think it’s your fault for intepreting it as “most people, full stop”.