Well, I think it does justify prioritizing investigation toward that area. In my work in biology/ biochemistry, we don’t typically start with hypotheses which invoke mechanisms that seem counter to known physics. It may be necessary in the end but we don’t start there.
And even if it involves unknown ‘physics’, simply knowing that similar conscious experiences are found in over 3 billion individuals that share common biology might suggest that it is amenable to statistical analysis and that the underlying, regular phenomena and patterns can be investigated in a scientific manner. This is some of the fuzziness of explanations for which I criticize the advocates of ‘disembodied intelligence"‘. If someone wants to invoke ‘special physics’, well, that’s fine. But build a testable theoretic around it and report back after analyzing the data and any attributes you’ve identified.