Don't sell yourself short. It's a salty lump of fat.

There's a lot of water and ions (IONS!) besides that lump of fat.

This gets explored a bit in The Talos Principle and it's sequal. Working on the 2nd one now, it's been fun

I've never understood why people think the most sophisticated and complex technology humans have ever been aware of is too mundane just because we have scratched the surface of understanding it.

I'm still rooting for Idealism or the immortal soul to somehow be a thing.

Go Banana!

Speak for yourself. I try not to think.

It’s OK. Consciousness is but a brief anomaly in the vast sea of time.

Action potential doesn't do thinking. Thinking happens at neuron junctions and that shits chemical and analogue. The electrical part just moves the data to the next synapse. There are some gap junctions but those aren't really associated with thinking.

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If by consciousness, you just mean thinking, then sure.

But if you mean awareness — “phenomena”, if you prefer — then I don’t see why an experiential state would (or could) be entirely secondary to a physical state.

It is, after all, possible for me to write words and perform other physical actions based on my experiential state. In many ways, my mental world is more “real” than the physical world.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think rejecting physicalism necessarily requires embracing the idea of a soul. I’m an atheist, and a neutral monist, for example. But if I had to choose between only physicalism and idealism, idealism makes more sense. Before anything else, I’m conscious.