On Consciousness

It could be the product of the meat machine inside our heads.  Another possibility is that consciousness is as palpable as spacetime.  Maybe we tune into consciousness like a radio tunes in to a given frequency.  Others have said that consciousness is the undetectable dark matter of the universe, or even gone so far as to posit that consciousness's undetectable dark matter can be broken down into the equivalents of proton neutron electron, etc etc etc.

When we really don't know, it doesn't hurt to brainstorm about what might be.  All science does is come up with theories, not facts.  Theories, unlike facts, are free to grow and improve (like Einstein improved on Newton's Gravity Theory). In searching for the answer to consciousness, I like to keep that in mind.

The other day, in a flight of fancy, I wondered if consciousness might not form from matter like matter forms from energy.   Current theory is that energy forms matter by passing through the Higgs.  Perhaps matter forms consciousness by passing through some undetected field or through a black hole to become conscious dark matter or by enabling an extended wave function via gap-junction connected dendrites effecting oscillations in tune with Plato's forms world/god ala Penrose/Hameroff Orch OR.