No. he's saying (not me), that relating to the "hard problem" of consciousness, 
the feeling of the emergent properties of atoms/moleculs is consciousness; but 
the emergence of such must have certain necessary conditions such as 
Perceptronium, Computronium (which are nothing but more molecules arranged to 
perceive and compute); into an independent, holistic entity.  He didn't mention 
the Hal computer who somehow emerges into an intelligent, perceptual, entity 
with relative self-awareness.
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 Without going into minute differences, the vast majority of neurophysiologists 
and physicists would agree with Tegmark that consciousness is an emergent 
property of matter.  In a nutshell, that's it. Sam Harris approaches the 
question of consciousness from a neurophysiological perspective (differing from 
Tegmark's physics); but nevertheless, the bottom line with Harris is that 
consciousness is an emergent property of an entity's nervous system, with some 
creatures being more highly evolved than others.  In short, brain first, 
consciousness emerging from brain matter. Nader otoh, clearly states (using 
metaphorical analogy) of consciousness acting through the brain (like a radio 
transducer).  Music coming from a radio doesn't originate in the radio.  The 
radio only transmits the sound after converting it from radio wavesitheqas  in 
a certain spectrum. Likewise, the brain is a methanism for transmission, not 
the origin of Consciousness
   Hagelin and Nader only claim to have come up with "theories": (hypotheses) 
and do not present any experimental evidence for the model.   What they give is 
is a cohesive, holistic model. .
 

 Hagelin have expanded their model to include Consciousness (with a big C); but 
as Nader states at least 3 times in his Stanford lecture, this (the 
Hagelin/Nader model following MMY) is a "THEORY" (he means hypothesis).
 

 Again, there's no experimental evidence for the existence of "Consciousness" 
(i.e. Purusha).  If so, let's see the references. 

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