He was willing to bite a big bullet to defend the definition he used. I just applied the definition he'd used, and plopped a much fatter bullet on his plate.

To recap - He would interpret the same sequence of past physical states as conscious or not depending on which branch of a later quantum split he ended up in.

Meanwhile, I provided an alternate very similar interpretation that maintains all of the benefits I can discern of his formulation and dodges both bullets.