There’s some overlap indeed. In particular, it definitely aligns with my model of why the redness of red is “flavoured” as the redness of red and not as burning your fingers (because it’s routed through the associations in our world-model). But it seems to jump too quickly to “having senses + WM implies qualia”; I think the self-awareness loop I’d described is still necessary on top of that.
There’s some overlap indeed. In particular, it definitely aligns with my model of why the redness of red is “flavoured” as the redness of red and not as burning your fingers (because it’s routed through the associations in our world-model). But it seems to jump too quickly to “having senses + WM implies qualia”; I think the self-awareness loop I’d described is still necessary on top of that.