Thanks Max, I appreciate the response.
What is the correlation you are making between active behavior in single and multi-cellular organisms and human consciousness? I'm afraid I'm not connecting the proverbial dots.
These organisms move around, navigate spacetime, interact, and behave apparently intelligently, but they don't have any neurons. But they all have centrioles (microtubules). Something is controlling and directing their behaviour, and lots of research on cells suggests it's these regular protein structures that act like a sensor and processor, and can coherently interfere with one another. It's the cavities within these regular protein structures that seem to be important. The brain is packed full of these microtubule structures, and it seems to be them, rather than the neurons, where consciousness arises. The neurons seem like a later development in larger organisms, and they generally move signals back and forth (to and from the brain).
Effectively these neurons surround the brain in an artificial EM field of relayed sensory data, that the microtubules then can process, just as they would directly in smaller, simpler organisms without neurons.
When this EM fields power drops, the microtubules can become more exposed to external fields.
It seems that consciousness is group-like, but it became important for larger organisms survival, if they could also operate somewhat independently from the group. Individuals could then interpret things from their own perspective, and do what was best both for themselves, *and* the group.
We're all like one single organism, that is understanding things in terms of the individual vs the group, the group vs the individual, and the individual vs the individual. Both part of, and separate.
That's the dynamic we seem to be struggling with... how the group protects itself from the individual, and how the individual protects itself from the group and other individuals.
We seem to have forgotten somewhat that our reality is really shared...
The previous post above, may also give you some more detail on my specific ideas about my position on the NDE...