I hate to be "that quantum consciousness guy", but one of the first sentences of the first lecture stood out to me: For a computer to be a quantum computer the physical systems that encode the individual bits must have no physical interactions whatever that are not under the complete control of the program.

What if we relaxed/paraphrased this as: For a biological system to be a mind the physical systems that underlie the mental substrate must have limited/circumscribed physical interactions that are not under the complete control of the mind.