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> you could do all the computations required for the nematode worm neural network with a pencil and paper rather than an electronic computer.
Yes.
> Would you say that this pencil and paper is now conscious?
No. But your experiment involves "you with a pencil and a paper" where "you" is conscious.
> Does building a computer out of organic particles cause consciousness?
It's not necessary to use organic particles. We will probably soon build the electronic computer which will, from the perspective of the humans communicating with him, indeed behave "as a conscious person": soon we won't need you to write the answer you wrote, the computer will be able to make even better one.
https://www.amazon.com/Makoroni-REPLACE-SCRIPT-License-Holde...
> "Emergence" is mostly lazy thinking
Calling "emergence" lazy thinking is lazy thinking.
> and lack of understanding
... and lack of understanding of what emergence even means.
Emerging properties are everywhere and they don't have to have anything with humans or their behavior to be recognized:
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/10/18/is-time-...
"Temperature and pressure didn’t stop being real once we understood them as emergent properties of an underlying atomic description."
Yes, temperature is an emergent property.