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This is actually an implication on one of the worlds leading theory of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory. It gives a mathematical measure of consciousness (as integrated information) and one of the surprising implications of that is that theres actually no matter that has zero integrated information. If we use this metric to measure human consciousness the implication is that a rock, say, has a small amount of consciousness.
Of course this theory is not without its issues, and I don’t personally subscribe to it, but I think it goes to show you that we all need to be more open minded to alternative possibilities to the typical “consciousness is just neurons firing” view. We don’t actually understand consciousness well enough to be jumping to that conclusion yet.
Yeah, I haven't looked into that one. Just read old philosophy and also a bit on analytic idealism from Bernardo Kastrup
https://philarchive.org/rec/KASAIA-3
It's gaining a bit of mainstream recognition but... A lot of cultural baggage resists it.
Yeah I feel you on that one. People who haven’t looked into this topic think that you have to think that consciousness is nothing more than neural firings or youre some sort of religious apologist, even though when you actually look into what researchers in this field are saying they are in large part skeptical of that viewpoint
Unfortunately they're not talking about IIT.
So more/less controversial depending on your views on mysticism I suppose.