Okay so materialist seem to believe consciousness appeared first in primitive fish when nervous system complexity emerged. About a billion years ago, leaving everything before it completely in the dark.
The computer is programmed to stay alive because of random chance and genes storing information and it's pre-conscious ancestors were the same. Qualitative mental states emerge from non-conscious matter (like magic) to instruct the computer to eat, find food and reproduce.
Taste and smell emmerge in response to the computer processing macro complex molecular structures (AKA food) none of these properties exist in the external universe of math and particles. They only exist inside the super computer's networks.
Photons (light particles) hitting the computers light sensitive cells traveling up the optic nerve wires are processed as a novel property called vision. Vision constructs light, objects, colors and a external 3d temporal world. Vision is a super high level emergent property of computation. The external world is a void of particles that would exist regardless if an observer was their. In the external world colors aren't real. Just computers creating novel features from scratch in response to being exposed to the Electromagnetic spectrum.
Vibrations in air, water and other matter is processed by the computer and a novel property called sound emerges. This property emerged from zilch. Just like taste, smell, vision and all other mental states.
The novel properties created by the computer are called "conscious experiences." however they are not important as they are just illusions (that are totally distinct) from the current scientific view of what matter is. Also pay no attention to the fact that the computer appears to be in a state of subjective experience where it feels the passage of time and can "freely interact" with some limited degree of volition. That is just an illusion of data crunching caused by the super computer.
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If you disagree you are anti science. You are suppose to ignore one of the most mysterious phenomena in the natural world because the anthropic principle and 20th century behavioral models and religions that happen to be associated with the topic.