If you’re looking for a clear, coherent and true explanation of consciousness, you aren’t going to find that anywhere today, especially not in off-the-cuff replies; and if someone does eventually figure it out, you ought to expect it to have a book’s worth of prerequisites and not be something that can be explained in a thousand words of comment replies. Consciousness is an extraordinarily difficult and confusing topic, and, generally speaking, the only way people come up with explanations that seem simple is by making simplifying assumptions that are wrong.
As for the more specific question of whether humans are Turing computable, this follows if (a) the laws of physics in a finite volume are Turing computable, and (b) human minds run entirely on physics. Both of these are believed to be true - (a) based on what we know about the laws themselves, and (b) based on neuroscience, which shows that physics are necessary and sufficient to produce humans, combined with Occam’s Razor, which says that we shouldn’t posit anything extra that we don’t need. If you’d like to zoom in on the explanation of one of these points, I’d be happy to provide references.
If you’re looking for a clear, coherent and true explanation of consciousness, you aren’t going to find that anywhere today, especially not in off-the-cuff replies; and if someone does eventually figure it out, you ought to expect it to have a book’s worth of prerequisites and not be something that can be explained in a thousand words of comment replies. Consciousness is an extraordinarily difficult and confusing topic, and, generally speaking, the only way people come up with explanations that seem simple is by making simplifying assumptions that are wrong.
As for the more specific question of whether humans are Turing computable, this follows if (a) the laws of physics in a finite volume are Turing computable, and (b) human minds run entirely on physics. Both of these are believed to be true - (a) based on what we know about the laws themselves, and (b) based on neuroscience, which shows that physics are necessary and sufficient to produce humans, combined with Occam’s Razor, which says that we shouldn’t posit anything extra that we don’t need. If you’d like to zoom in on the explanation of one of these points, I’d be happy to provide references.