> there is no yet identified physical mechanism that identifies the arising of consciousness in terms of properties of matter or energy As far as I know, there

> there is no yet identified physical mechanism that identifies the arising of consciousness in terms of properties of matter or energy As far as I know, there's no proper definition of consciousness, and any time we have narrowed what consciousness may be (over the past few centuries) we have redefined consciousness so that it remains indefinable. It seems strange to me to divide the universe into "meat inside bags of skin" and "things outside bags of skin" and presume one side of that split somehow possesses unique properties not subject to physical laws of matter and energy.