Biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological computationalism
sciencedirect.comI love when people figure out that life literally is a computation - everything about it - from the molecular structure, to the reproductive strategies, to the mutation and selection of the genome, to the metastructure of cognition and consciousness… its all churning through a solution… a very very long solution, that has very distinct steps and stages, environments and advancements.
Its been computing a lot longer than we understand.
I think Quantum Computers similarly are also more like physical systems that evolve into some state, which is the answer of the computation.