This is a bad faith reading of the comment. They meant that “theories” of consciousness often rely on semi-mystical woo-woo with very little actual evidence and

This is a bad faith reading of the comment. They meant that “theories” of consciousness often rely on semi-mystical woo-woo with very little actual evidence and no plausible causal explanation. And that is exactly what has happened here - some intriguing results about anesthesia buried under a pile of pseudoscientific nonsense about quantum computing, and making unfalsifiable claims that this solves “problems of consciousness” which are themselves too vague to be scientific. I don’t think the author is dishonest - lots of smart and honest people get misled by ideology or aesthetics - but I am confident this paper is 95% bullshit.