This concept was explored by the show "Westworld" (don't worry if you haven't seen it, this point isn't all that relevant to the plot). From what I can tell, th

This concept was explored by the show "Westworld" (don't worry if you haven't seen it, this point isn't all that relevant to the plot). From what I can tell, this theory, like most theories of consciousness, has fallen out of favor as more materialist views take hold. But it seems like that's only because we abandoned studying a more colloquial definition of consciousness (consciousness = subjective experience) in favor of one that we can observe (consciousness = integrated information theory). It seems to me that these arent mutually exclusive, i.e. we have a physical reality that lends itself to the emergent behavior of language, and language gives us a rich inner life of experience? Or is what Im saying nonsensical, or already how people look at things?