I propose the book is the cause of the story.

The scientist may be right...

But that blog also thinks aliens are here and all types of other crazy shit

Seems plausible. Reminds me of an article from long ago where a person used a training algorithm to get an FPGA to produce the behavior he wanted. The upside being that he got the behavior he wanted using less of the FPGAs capacity then a normally designed circuit would require. The downside was that it wasn't reproducible on other FPGA chips. Whatever made it work required the subtle unique variations of that specific piece of silicon.

Edit: Thanks to tips from peoples comments I found it: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

Getting real ghost in the shell vibes

Better load up my headphones with some binaural beats, looks like I'm going to Geniustown!!!

Sure, why not ?

Now prove it.

Or at least try to show it with experiments or something. Ideas are cheap and there are loads of ideas explaining consciousness waiting to be disproven or the lycky winner.

This reminds me of the analog processors recently discussed in “century-old problem" of poor precision and impracticality.

Nah, it’s weed, fam.

Brain activity is the result of electromagnetic waves, so yes?