Comment by dwd

Be careful not to equate conscious with subjective experience.

- Conscious is the substrate or architecture of the system.

- Awareness is the active resolution of inputs (external and internal) against that system's model.

- Subjective Experience is the feeling "what it is like to be" from within the system.

I also disagree with the "observer" position. Seems he's imported some Carlo Rovelli into this essay as they do collaborate together. You don't need an observer - it's the same reason I find Copenhagen / Wave function collapse to just seem wrong.

The reason I think quala is hard to pin down comes down to how the conscious internal model compresses what it has previously resolved about the world (internal and external).

The feeling of blueness is that highly compressed concept (not raw data about ranges of wavelengths) which is then compared against the blueness of something our awareness is focused on.