2) Science will never be able to disprove claim (1).
If you doubt claim (2) then explain how you could prove to me that you are a conscious being as opposed to a figment of my imagination invented by my subconscious mind in a similar way to the "beings" one experiences in dreams.
So obviously I don't accept your assumptions and further I think that your confusion follows from those assumptions.
You seem to be imagining an AI as some kind of independent being that can make "free" choices. But an AI, at least to the extent that anyone working in the field is able to conceive of it, is nothing like that whatsoever. An AI is little more than an optimization algorithm that attempts to optimize some utility function provided by its programmer. So the answer to your question is that if it is useful for the purposes of optimizing its utility function for a (sufficiently advanced) AI to process data in temporal order then it will do so, otherwise it will not.
your answer somewhat reminded me about a current trend in advanced neurological stuff, could be some paper (I'm not googling it sorry, no time now), and a recent interview with some Ace AI guy at Facebook.
Something like this "human could be no general intelligence at all"
So we apparently are not much than some kind of pattern prediction engine, the whole societies we build is just a subproduct of some base algorithm, probably we are just bigger - talkative - ants.
1) Consciousness is not a computation.
2) Science will never be able to disprove claim (1).
If you doubt claim (2) then explain how you could prove to me that you are a conscious being as opposed to a figment of my imagination invented by my subconscious mind in a similar way to the "beings" one experiences in dreams.
So obviously I don't accept your assumptions and further I think that your confusion follows from those assumptions.
You seem to be imagining an AI as some kind of independent being that can make "free" choices. But an AI, at least to the extent that anyone working in the field is able to conceive of it, is nothing like that whatsoever. An AI is little more than an optimization algorithm that attempts to optimize some utility function provided by its programmer. So the answer to your question is that if it is useful for the purposes of optimizing its utility function for a (sufficiently advanced) AI to process data in temporal order then it will do so, otherwise it will not.