My intuition is that a single unit of consciousness is a wave/particle interaction, and that the kind of consciousness we experience has a particular volume and shape, some parts of which are fairly consistent between people and some parts which vary considerably. The more volume of consciousness the more diversity can fit into it.
My mental model includes integrated information theory and Karl friston free energy principle, and something about temporal computation on a physical graph structure.
Which camp would this fall into? 2 seems closest but kind of undersells it...
Even with information integration theory it doesn't explain any of the why or what is happening of subjective experience and there still seems to be a leap in there that has a mystical or mysterious aspect to it. Basically [specific mechanistic process explainable with physics] -> [mysterious missing step] -> [consciousness]
My mental model includes integrated information theory and Karl friston free energy principle, and something about temporal computation on a physical graph structure.
Which camp would this fall into? 2 seems closest but kind of undersells it...