I believe that's the whole point. This is someone trying to distill a seemingly intractable problem into a testable form. I think the answer for now is "no," b

I believe that's the whole point. This is someone trying to distill a seemingly intractable problem into a testable form. I think the answer for now is "no," but that's precisely the question he is attempting to answer: "is consciousness something that can be modeled in such a way that we can answer whether or not it is [x]?" Not: "is consciousness [x]?"