What is so mysterious about human consciousness?

[Speck Tater]

55. My best cure for "no reason to live"...

... is chocolate, especially brownie chocolate fudge ice cream.

And if I had to choose one thing to say that everything is made of, I pick information. I think that with information we could convincingly simulate mass, energy, time, and space, so information is probably the most elemental of all things. And without information there is no difference between an electron and a proton. The difference between two particles is information about those particles. "It from bit" as physicist J.A. Wheeler put it:

[...] it is not unreasonable to imagine that information sits at the core of physics, just as it sits at the core of a computer.
It from bit. Otherwise put, every 'it'—every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself—derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely—even if in some contexts indirectly—from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes-or-no questions, binary choices, bits. 'It from bit' symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom—a very deep bottom, in most instances—an immaterial source and explanation; that which we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes–no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe. (John Archibald Wheeler 1990: 5)