I think you miss the point of the hard problem of consciousness. No one is capable of offering any physical sort of coherent explanation for the experience of

I think you miss the point of the hard problem of consciousness. No one is capable of offering any physical sort of coherent explanation for the experience of consciousness. There is no process in the brain that, if discovered, would lead to an "aha!" moment about the source of qualia. We could understand the physical law governing every single atom in the brain and simulate it with the best achievable accuracy and still not understand anything more about the emergence of qualia than we do now. Similarly, there is no coherent metaphysical or mystical explanation for consciousness. Such an explanation would have to invoke some interaction between a non physical world and the physical world, which is an absurd notion for multiple reasons. I believe consciousness for humans is the equivalent of differential equations for amoeba. It is beyond our comprehension.