Separating the conscious wheat from the unconscious chaff: Towards a biologically grounded computationalism.

We agree that consciousness, as we know it, is inextricably biological - but not every biological detail is essential. Identifying which features are necessary, across scales, is vital for assessing the limits of computationalism. This process will reveal a richer, more biologically informed computationalism - one that future machines could, in principle, instantiate, but only after much deeper biological understanding.