As I understand consciousness is the ability of perceiving our own thoughts. This seems to us very important because thanks to this ability we are aware of thi

As I understand consciousness is the ability of perceiving our own thoughts. This seems to us very important because thanks to this ability we are aware of thinking, of existing, of being a self. Ref: Descartes' cogito ergo sum: I think therefore I am. We have no idea of how the brain does that. It's mind boggling (pun intended). Chalmers say it's "the hard problem of consciousness". However for a computer this is a piece of cake. Activity Monitor does that super easily. And debuggers go very deep inside the 'thought' process. You can even run a debugger on itself without sweating too much. To fly we definitely don't need to imitate birds. For consciousness we don't need to imitate humain brains. Maybe you disagree about the definition of consciousness and want to make it something akin of a soul. However it's hard to deny that we have no idea how the brain's equivalent of Activity Monitor is 'implemented'.