Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.
I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk
Isn’t this Penrose’s weird ether fume huffing thoughts?
Perhaps. It still strikes me as a better potential explanation than neurons = transistors, consciousness = computation.
Plus, if you aren’t rooting for at least one kind of kooky hypothesis, then whats even the point of spectating modern science?
Nobody serious views brains as a computer. Anyone with any technical background in either computational theory or neuroscience knows they’re vastly different.
Don’t get confused by pop culture nonsense. People used to use clockwork or steam engines as crude analogy for the brain, wasn’t any more accurate then.