Can Computers Have Human Rights? Explaining Consciousness Through Numbers

[shaneshnarayan]

My class requires that I write an essay posed by the question can computers have human rights and the way I think I'm going to go about this is try to explain how everything can explained through numbers even our consciousness and if I can explain this then I can argue how computers should have human rights because are we not a computer ourselves. I can't seem to find any good explanations about how consciousness is number, could someone explain that concept to me?

 

[phinds]

I can't seem to find any good explanations about how consciousness is number ...

Did it occur to you that maybe you can't find any discussion of this because it isn't true?

 

[mfb]

That is too philosophical for this forum.

An idea how to start:
I would try to argue with physical objects, not mathematical objects. It is clear that the brain has a physical location, and physical processes (activity of neurons) contribute to consciousness.
Artificial consciousnessat Wikipedia gives a good introduction.