I think I'm channeling Feynman accurately when I say "oy ve" to this one. Come on, conciousness is very cool, and a great mystery; but a state of matter? Maybe in the degenerate sense that any object is a "state of matter". But please don't feed the woo-woo quantum-mechanics-is-god crowd with stuff like this.
What is a "state of matter" other than an emergent property of quantum behaviors? States of matter are merely a construction to simplify those behaviors, and there is nothing inherently flawed with viewing consciousness this way.
That said, there are serious flaws in this write-up, including many simplifying and already debunked presumptions about unified consciousness.
No, there's nothing wrong with it. Exact as javajosh said: it is an abstraction whose analogous forms would make anything a state of matter. If consciousness is a state of matter, why not plant? Isn't plant a state of matter? Why not life? Why isn't sleep a state of matter?
You could see it that way. You could see anything anyway you like. The objection is that seeing things this way causes confusion, not understanding.
