I skimmed the paper. It was interesting, but clearly, for me, the more interesting material lies in the books the paper cited where Dr, Edelman describes his theory of consciousness.

The concern I have is with the "hard problem of consciousness" that is inherent in the materialistic view of brain-makes-mind. How does one construct an artifact that experiences the felt sense of a rose, not as an automated summation of all of its properties, but as a subjective, this is how I am experiencing this rose?

If I get time, I will take a look at the book, though the book I read ("Notes on Complexity") didn't call out any particular theory that the author of that book felt solved this problem.