Interesting that under the Chalmers theory, there's plenty of room for computers as we know them today to be conscious. That "critical point" where quanta become qualia, if it's purely a matter of complex arrangements of bits, could have been reached by now. I'm sure I'm not the first to put this forth, but maybe your laptop undergoes some form of experience like the "phenomenal mind." One where it perceives beauty in complex patterns emerging in sequences of instructions. Or pleasure from a hard computational task executed with low time complexity.

I suppose that we haven't observed any of the effects of consciousness, i.e. expression of choice, could be an argument that there is no such consciousness in a computer. Or, it could just be that computers are conscious but lack any tools to exert free will. Their consciousness is "read only," so to speak.