On naturalism and consciousness

[Mudhammam]

Very well, Rhythm. Do you have any recent books on computational theory that you'd recommend? And one further issue I'd like to press a bit more, regarding your response that:

Output 1 at io address "x" - write to register A.

It seems to me that you've offered an account for the easy part. I wasn't disputing that emotions and sensations in the central nervous system are physical components reducible to chemical formulas. The relevant component that your suggested equation does not address is the "I feel emotions." Why should certain biological functions be accompanied by a conscious subject which experiences said functions? I still hold that a machine can, and at this point does, operate without having any conscious experience of said operations, unless your suggestion is that the experiences we have in mind are nothing more than certain automatons such as "Output 1 at io address "x" - write to register A." If this is all consciousness really is, I would simply want to ask what gives nerve cells in the brain such a privilege that others throughout the body are not accompanied by? As silly as it may sound, why doesn't my heart think?

And also, to slightly detour and indulge in an additional philosophical question this raises, on what basis do you think can we really deem abstract concepts, as these are but effects of such automations, as "rational" or "irrational"? Is it their ability to "copy" reality accurately, or is it their success at survival (though this was certainly synonymous at one time, I don't think the same is necessarily always the case today)?