> various physical and chemical elements can form ever more complex pattern-recognizing feedback loops You're not being reductionist enough. The brain is just

> various physical and chemical elements can form ever more complex pattern-recognizing feedback loops You're not being reductionist enough. The brain is just atoms. 'Feedback loops' is just a model, and not actually real. The problem is that physics never predicted that consciousness would arise, there is literally no physical model for what consciousness is.