Yes, my default expectation is that in theory a sufficiently faithful computation performed “by hand” would be in itself conscious. The scale of those computations is likely staggeringly immense though, far beyond the lifespan of any known being capable of carrying them out. It would not be surprising that a second of conscious experience might require 10^20 years of “by hand” computation.
I doubt that any practical computation by hand can emulate even the (likely total lack of) consciousness of a virus, so the intuition that any actual computation by hand cannot support consciousness is preserved.
Yes, my default expectation is that in theory a sufficiently faithful computation performed “by hand” would be in itself conscious. The scale of those computations is likely staggeringly immense though, far beyond the lifespan of any known being capable of carrying them out. It would not be surprising that a second of conscious experience might require 10^20 years of “by hand” computation.
I doubt that any practical computation by hand can emulate even the (likely total lack of) consciousness of a virus, so the intuition that any actual computation by hand cannot support consciousness is preserved.