Re:Computers can't be conscious, thank God. (Score 1)

I am acutally reading a book on the science of conciousness (and the missing elements thereof) that you might find every enlightening. It is "Shadows of the Mind" by Roger Penrose. Penrose is the lead Professor of Mathmatics at Oxford and is the winner (with Steven Hawking) of the Wolf Prize for physics. This book is actually the sequel to "The Emperors New Mind" which is on the same subject.

Now to get to the point: this guy goes very deep into the computability and non-computability involved in awareness, according to different viewpoints, and points out that some missing element of conciousness "trancends" computation. If you have never read these books, I recommend them. Along with your view, he also contends that in the present form, computers cannot be concious because consiousness is beyond computability. This reading might be informative to your ideas as well.