I fail to see the helpfulness of describing or defining something we do not understand in terms of something related we equally do not understand, „understand“ here in the sense of „have a clear theory that gives meaning to the words we use“.
In relation to the problem of how qualitative self-aware experiences can arise in a biological information system this article does not seem to help at all.
Is the statement really „consciousness“ in the sense just vaguely described is just „memories“? Then what are memories? How can they have qualities and where does the self awareness come from? How to model it mathematically?
I feel we’re still in the age of the humoral theory of consciousness.