  This paper looks at recent debates in the enactivist literature on
computation and consciousness in order to assess major obstacles to building
artificial conscious agents. We consider a proposal from Villalobos and
Dewhurst (2018) for enactive computation on the basis of organizational
closure. We attempt to improve the argument by reflecting on the closed paths
through state space taken by finite state automata. This motivates a defense
against Clark's recent criticisms of "extended consciousness", and perhaps a
new perspective on living with machines.
