[barrkel]

Calculators may be conscious - I tend towards panpsychism myself - but because I tend towards panpsychism, I don't think arithmetic generates qualia, because the arithmetic is independent of the computing substrate.

I don't particularly want to get mystical (i.e. wondering which computing substrates, including neurons, actually generate qualia), but I cannot accept the consequences of mere arithmetic alone generating suffering. Or all mathematics is immoral.