[sebastianconcpt]

A storm doesn't have feedback loops in brain-like interconnections. But in a quantic level there is thermodynamic activity re-adapting and re-shaping the system all the time. In any case, as Giulio Tononi would say, "it has zero integration." And it doesn't have consciousness, only energetic physico-chemical activity.

I agree with that view.

The important part is (a) that it does not have computation and (b) regardless of complexity, computation is not consciousness. Saying it and expecting it to "magically emerge from it" does not make that hypothesis any truer.

They are throwing darts in the dart and making it sound cool.

But, okay, I'll be nice and not troll the effort of making this subject cool and let's not put theory against theory because is not productive.

What about seeing something testable?

Take a Paramecium.

It does not have many neurons, so it doesn't have synapses but it still learns where the food is and reacts to anestesics as we do.

What about that?

That radical theory published there is not predicting the Paramecium, much less anything about the one in the Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

Bring me news on how quantum-biology is behaving down there and we might actually get somewhere.