In retrospect, something like this theory was probably one I was drawing on implicitly, and I like that from 2 well-validated principles, you can constrain the space of possibilities of consciousness significantly enough to throw out a lot of philosophically interesting, but also wrong theories, and I personally think AST is probably my go-to mental model of how consciousness actually works, and I personally think the consciousness problem is by now mostly resolved in my own mind, such that I can focus on bigger problems.
In retrospect, something like this theory was probably one I was drawing on implicitly, and I like that from 2 well-validated principles, you can constrain the space of possibilities of consciousness significantly enough to throw out a lot of philosophically interesting, but also wrong theories, and I personally think AST is probably my go-to mental model of how consciousness actually works, and I personally think the consciousness problem is by now mostly resolved in my own mind, such that I can focus on bigger problems.