Understanding consciousness: think of it like a neuro-hologram, one that AI can’t mimic

This theory has tons of implications. One is that consciousness is “private” and leaves an inevitable “explanatory gap,” Kirkeby-Hinrup told me, “because there’s no way for anyone else to recreate the holographic recording surfaces of your neurons.” Nobody knows how anybody else perceives redness, say, or the smell of mothballs, or fear, or spirituality.