The problem with all of these "theories of consciousness" is that none of them even begin to address the actual "Hard Problem". None of them have even the slightest thing to with actually *explaining* why/how there's "something it's like" to be us.
They're interesting theories about cognition, about how the brain processes and makes use of information, but the only way they relate to conscious experience is by *presupposing* a conscious, experiencing subject.
There's absolutely no need for actual subjective experience in any of these models. They could just as well be descriptions of a non-conscious AI's operating system or something. This is true of literally every so-called "theory of consciousness".
The problem with all of these "theories of consciousness" is that none of them even begin to address the actual "Hard Problem". None of them have even the slightest thing to with actually *explaining* why/how there's "something it's like" to be us.
They're interesting theories about cognition, about how the brain processes and makes use of information, but the only way they relate to conscious experience is by *presupposing* a conscious, experiencing subject.
There's absolutely no need for actual subjective experience in any of these models. They could just as well be descriptions of a non-conscious AI's operating system or something. This is true of literally every so-called "theory of consciousness".
IMHO.