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>I think he's referring to subjective experience, which is beyond computation.[1]
Give a reasonable definition of subjective experience so that there may be a logical connection to computation. Then we can ask if it is beyond or not.
Too bad it's all reciprocal though; the computer thinks you're the soulless machine. Or that's what it would think if it were aware of such concepts.
At present day technology, we can understand the schematics of our machines and be reasonably certain that they are not aware of concepts. But then consider a chaotic FPGA with a microphone input that has been reassembling itself over thousands of years. Even if you had access to its schematics, its design would not be humanly comprehensible, and you would not know its designed purpose. So you could not be sure that it doesn't have a process that is equivalent to us understanding concepts.
Try to localize yourself in an arbitrary cellular automaton. See what I mean?
Quines can do it. They can do it better than I can, actually.