Wow, Tam Hunt touches on this exact idea in this podcast at ~21:00: https://mattasher.com/2020/07/19/episode-11-tam-hunt-on-consciousness-resonance-and-why-cat

Wow, Tam Hunt touches on this exact idea in this podcast at ~21:00: https://mattasher.com/2020/07/19/episode-11-tam-hunt-on-consciousness-resonance-and-why-cats-fight-their-own-tails/ https://mattasher.com/2020/07/19/episode-11-tam-hunt-on-cons... He pitches the idea (which I'm poorly paraphrasing) that there's a relationship between the complexity of matter and the complexity of its aspect as consciousness. Smaller fields of consciousness merge with a common resonance to form larger more complex consciousness. Anesthesia or coma being states where those smaller fields fall out of resonance and the more complex consciousness breaks down.