Religious and philosophical questions aside, consciousness is an extremely interesting subject as a high-level way to learn about the brain inner workings. It's

Religious and philosophical questions aside, consciousness is an extremely interesting subject as a high-level way to learn about the brain inner workings. It's our abstraction for modelling and talking about the focused thinking process, while brain also handles many other complex tasks in the background that we're not usually aware of - but these layers of "thinking" influence each other, so it's all much more complex than just "what thinking feels like".