I think that the brain does something beyond or in addition to information processing because I don't see how you can get qualia or conscious experiences out of

I think that the brain does something beyond or in addition to information processing because I don't see how you can get qualia or conscious experiences out of information processing alone. However to claim that information processing isn't at least an aspect of what the brain does is absurd. If you agree that sorting a list constitutes information processing then since a person equipped with pencil and paper (or without if the example is short enough) can sort a list it's clear that the person's brain has processed information. I find it ironic that one of the things the author claims humans don't have is memories. Memory is a concept that arose to describe an aspect of human experience thousands of years before computers existed. Using the term "memory" to describe information storage in computers is indeed an analogy but it's an analogy in the opposite direction from what the author claims.