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
All this talk of neurons.
As an idiot, I still think cytoskeletons within cells are the most interesting avenue of research. Microtubules are responsible for an awful lot of things that happen within cells, from movement to pulling chromosome copies apart in division. There’s some buzz that their structure gives may might maybe give them “quantum computational properties” and they appear to be what anesthetics affect. Although its all still early research and there’s a lot of "could"s "possibly"s and "maybe"s.
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.