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Because "I am my brain" is actually an extremely complex hypothesis; you need to relate all of your inner subjective experience to brain states, action potentials, firing patterns and what not. Since all brains are actually slightly different from one another (at least from a purely physical point of view), the hypothesis that other brains also have subjective experience is untenable due to its sheer complexity.
What does that have to do with the quantum mind hypothesis?
That allows you to replace "I am my brain" with "I am a complex quantum state which is instantiated by my brain; and my inner experience maps directly to this quantum state." Other brains have evolved to maintain quantum states in the same way, hence they also have subjective experience.
That doesn't make a difference wrt your argument.