Disclaimer: I’m neither a physicist nor a mathematician, so take what I say with a grain of salt!

Although I like his hypothesis and agree with the suggested conclusion that consciousness does not arise from physical processes, I don’t think there’s anything very unique here.

First of all, I think there are lots of physical phenomena that are not computable. (The n-body problem is a simple example.) Being unable to precisely describe a physical process with mathematics doesn’t mean the process isn’t physical – it just means the process can’t be described with mathematics.

Secondly, I have yet to hear a satisfying definition of consciousness, so there’s no way of knowing what the author even means by “consciousness”. His “proof” that human consciousness cannot be computed is dependent on his definition of consciousness.

When it comes to consciousness, I’d much rather hear what a philosopher or a poet or an artist has to say rather than a biologist, physicist, or mathematician.