Recently I've come to accept this view as well. In a way consciousness isn't a thing to be destroyed or created, but rather it's a kind of immutable force that

Recently I've come to accept this view as well. In a way consciousness isn't a thing to be destroyed or created, but rather it's a kind of immutable force that emerges sometimes given the right hardware instruments (human body, elephants, apes, octopuses, etc). The body equipment implants senses and feedback unto consciousness when it develops. Ofc, all that we really know of the universe is through conscious awareness. Perhaps consciousness is to humans like water is to fish, and we can't ever truly know what consciousness is 'outside of itself'.