The position is that information not physical matter is ontologically primary and that substrate independent integrated information processing is identical to c

The position is that information not physical matter is ontologically primary and that substrate independent integrated information processing is identical to consciousness. A hello world program and a rock are not integrated information processing systems. The former is an automata which can be contained in an integrated information processing systems and the latter is a more arbitrary construct which does very little information processing at all (much less integrated).