Consciousness is not a &quot;meta-structure&quot; created from little pieces of things, and anyone who thinks so is fooling themselves.  Just take a moment to be present and aware of your own consciousness to realize this.  It IS crazy to think that something as profound as consciousness comes from lots of legos put together in just the right way.  That sounds like magic to me.  Everything makes a lot more sense if you look at it the other way around - that consciousness makes everything else.  All the difficult problems become much easier.  Here&#x27;s a blog post I wrote about it a while ago that got on the front page on Hacker News: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hack.ly&#x2F;articles&#x2F;why-consciousness-may-not-come-from-the-brain&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hack.ly&#x2F;articles&#x2F;why-consciousness-may-not-come-from-...</a>