This is the link that is missing in quantum theories of consciousness. We cannot give up the possibility of a biophysics of consciousness before making all efforts to develop it. Yes, you are right again. Grossberg's work is very rich, and I'm not doing justice to it in my very brief notes. One of his ideas is that the brain has intrinsic patterns of connectivity, learned from previous experiences.
Conscious experience occurs when afferent environmental patterns resonate with intrinsic patterns.
In this view, 'qualia' is not purely subjective or purely objective, but the result of such resonance. I have proposed a similar conception, in older posts to Psyche. I also have tried to argue that the 'double aspect' theory is monist, not dualist. In the monist view, mental events are not independent of spatial and temporal processes. They are higher-dimensional physical processes that emerge from brain processes and the interaction with the environment.