There are actually highly interesting developments at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience, one of them being the works of Thomas Metzinger (see, e.g

There are actually highly interesting developments at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience, one of them being the works of Thomas Metzinger (see, e.g., http://www.amazon.com/Being-No-One-Self-Model-Subjectivity/dp/0262633086 http://www.amazon.com/Being-No-One-Self-Model-Subjectivity/d...). It's simply wrong to state that research into consciousness is at the state of "it emerges from neural activity".