If their point is 'behavior is plausibly mindless but experience implies that there's something more to consciousness', then they're asking the hard problem of

If their point is 'behavior is plausibly mindless but experience implies that there's something more to consciousness', then they're asking the hard problem of consciousness but doing a bad job of it (like everyone else). It's also possible that they don't understand computation at all -- but once again, a lot of people approach the hard problem of consciousness without separating it from computation.