What makes sense to me is that consciousness is not an emergent property but a core of all things, with the additional property that is replicative/additive. Th

What makes sense to me is that consciousness is not an emergent property but a core of all things, with the additional property that is replicative/additive. That is smaller consciousness's can form larger consciousness's. As to what it is, or why it exists at all, I don't think there will ever be answer to that. It just is. Its definitely a strange thought, but it seems more likely to me than neurons or whatever other brain matter somehow produce consciousness out of thin air as soon as they some level of composition. Pure materialism also seems very ill defined to me. The physical world is after all only observable/detectable/can be studied upon, through conscious experience. At best we can say what is real is what is universally agreed upon by all observing conscious agents. If hypothetically there were only two of us, and I said "There is no ball in front of us" and you said "There is", then what is the meaning of physical true/reality? You can say lets use a detector. But then again, if I experienced the detector as saying false and you said its true, what do we do? It seems unavoidable that reality is a part of conscious experience, and not the other way around.