What remains from my perspective is that consciousness doesn't exist, everything is just a deterministic machine when isolated and a probabilistic one upon inte

What remains from my perspective is that consciousness doesn't exist, everything is just a deterministic machine when isolated and a probabilistic one upon interaction with the external. But we experience consciousness, so we are missing something. Unless you think consciousness is an illusion, and that begs the question, an illusion to whom? All that remains is an unanswered question. That special spark is what we are trying to pin down and explain and understand, it might not be special or a spark, but we don't know how else to describe it right now.