For example, the articles make the claim that brains make no clear separation between hardware and software. Okay, that seems to be true. But so what? Why should I believe that a lack of hardware/​software distinction is a necessary property for consciousness to arise?
Relatedly, I liked the article The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness by Alexander Lerchner, and the reply to it by Shelly Albaum.
I just linkposted this to the EA Forum.