"If true, the theory has major implications for efforts to design consciousness into artificial intelligence machines;[30] current microprocessor technology is designed to transmit information linearly along electrical channels, and more general electromagnetic effects are seen as a nuisance and damped out; if this theory is right, however, this is directly counterproductive to creating an artificially conscious computer, which on some versions of the theory would instead have electromagnetic fields that synchronized its outputs—or in the original version of the theory would have spatially patterned electromagnetic fields"
I don't have any particular informed opinion on Electromagnetic theories of consciousness.
But that "Implications for artificial intelligence" is completely wrong. It's perfectly possibly to simulate something like what the claimed model of consciousness is using a perfectly normal computer. It may take additional compute to do it, but field simulations are perfectly achievable.
It seems like this bit on Wikipedia was extracted from a paper by one of the chief proponents of this theory. The fact they think that about computers is pretty worrying and makes me question how well thought out this theory is.
"If true, the theory has major implications for efforts to design consciousness into artificial intelligence machines;[30] current microprocessor technology is designed to transmit information linearly along electrical channels, and more general electromagnetic effects are seen as a nuisance and damped out; if this theory is right, however, this is directly counterproductive to creating an artificially conscious computer, which on some versions of the theory would instead have electromagnetic fields that synchronized its outputs—or in the original version of the theory would have spatially patterned electromagnetic fields"