My gut feeling is that consciousness isn’t as deep and mysterious as people think it is. It’s possible that consciousness is an inevitable result of putting a s

My gut feeling is that consciousness isn’t as deep and mysterious as people think it is. It’s possible that consciousness is an inevitable result of putting a sufficiently intelligent mind into a body and, as a result, the mind can’t help but weave a story about itself that connects events together. Similarly with other properties of intelligence and the brain that we like to think are mysterious and deep.