I agree that this is a profound and perfectly valid question. Sir Roger Penrose said many times that our current models of Physics are not including Consciousn

I agree that this is a profound and perfectly valid question. Sir Roger Penrose said many times that our current models of Physics are not including Consciousness and that is a big issue. He and Hameroff are working in an interesting line of research that is trying heretically to do just that, model Consciousness pushing the current statu quo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orch-OR https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orch-OR Here is a interview of Hameroff talking about why Consciousness is not an epiphenomenon (as the experiments with paramesiums shows) and is far more than computation: http://youtu.be/YpUVot-4GPM http://youtu.be/YpUVot-4GPM