Not transcendental, no. But consciousness isn't just the physical and chemical reactions in your brain. It's more than the sum of its parts. The mind is a leve

Not transcendental, no. But consciousness isn't just the physical and chemical reactions in your brain. It's more than the sum of its parts. The mind is a level of abstraction up from the brain. The mind is what the brain does, not necessarily what it is. Consciousness of course relies on discrete physical reactions in the brain, but in the way that software relies on the discrete transistors in a CPU. Consciousness is the emergent behavior of the system. It exists more on an informational level than physical, even if it is a physical process.