When you said > With consciousness, the emergentists are not capable of pointing at the first principle, or building block. ...it sounded like there were no p

When you said > With consciousness, the emergentists are not capable of pointing at the first principle, or building block. ...it sounded like there were no plausible candidates. If computation is a candidate, then it's certainly something they can point at (with the caveat that it's only a candidate and not currently testable). I think if instead you had written something along those lines and avoided the words "not capable of", then hoseja and I wouldn't have reacted.