Keep in mind that causality can be understood in multiple ways in your example: 1) consciousness is merely something that emerges from matter (eg. functionalis

Keep in mind that causality can be understood in multiple ways in your example: 1) consciousness is merely something that emerges from matter (eg. functionalism) 2) consciousness and matter coexist everywhere, but in some configurations of matter consciousness is 'condensed' and gives rise to our subjective experience (eg. Integrated Information Theory by Tononi and Koch)