In 2014 Cosmologist Max Tegmark wrote a paper positing that consciousness is a state of matter. The concept is presented as a long-overdue attempt to include consciousness in the study of physics. However, throughout the paper there are subtle denigrations of consciousness. Consciousness is posited to be “an accidental by-product of error correction”. Elsewhere, the conception of subjective consciousness is relegated to either a dualistic soul or a non-entity that doesn’t influence so much as a particle.