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
Neurons have a specific electrical function and interconnection that we can demonstrate experimentally.
Yes but that specific mechanism has never been demonstrated to have anything to do with consciousness beyond the fact that interrupting them also interrupts consciousness. If we’re positing that consciousness is something that belongs to each individual part of the biological system, but then a singular consciousness that corresponds to the whole being can arise out of their interaction, why should that part of the process be limited purely to electrical connections between neurons?
I’m not saying it has to be limited to only neurons, but until there’s a way to test whether or not entire ecosystems can have a consciousness like ours then I am skeptical of these claims