Yes. I admit that I have great flaws in my reasoning😅. It’s just a belief.

But I think that conciousness is intimately linked to the physical body, the vulnerability of it, the possibility for it to feel sharp and life threatening pain, the primeval urges to breed and multiply, in short instincts. (I view animals as being concious, regardless of intelligence).

Probably it’s because of my lack of imagination that I can’t see anything corresponding to insticts, pain etc spontaneously evolve in artificial systems, and therefore I don’t BELIEVE in conciousness spontaneously emerging in computers.