I would put it like this: because it is impossible to understand how consciousness could arise from the activity of material things, it must be a property of material things itself, is always present in them, yet gets specific structure from the organization of matter into brains
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Another (but probably unusual) way to frame the argument is that consciousness must be extra-computational, and because physics is computational, it must be realized outside of physics, and thus appear to us computational observers as an inseparable property of the substrate.
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Do you believe something can be realized outside of physics?
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