What is so mysterious about human consciousness?

[Speck Tater]

42. You've explained the mechanism by which sensations REACH consciousness

you haven't explained consciousness. You've explained the movie projector, you haven't explained the audience. This is the same categorical mistake that Dennet makes. You stopped short of actually explaining what you claim to explain and simply say "abracadabra" while making a logic-free leap right over the very thing you set out to explain.

And for the record, anyone who has done any serious meditation for any period of time knows from experience that "thoughts" are not consciousness, and "memory" is not consciousness. Naive non-meditators, even professional neurophysiologists who are not meditators, make the mistake of conflating these two distinctly different things. Explaining thought does not explain consciousness. Nor does explaining memory, or sensation, or memory of sensation.

It may sound radical to suggest such a thing, but I believe that people who set out to explain consciousness should at least know how to tell the difference between consciousness and the contents of consciousness. One should, at the very minimum, practice meditation long enough to experience what content-free consciousness is, so they won't continue to make this rookie error of confusing the peanut butter for the jar that holds it. When someone who doesn't know the difference tries to explain consciousness to someone who does know the difference, they just look plain silly.