What I rarely see / hear articulated well enough, and am not even sure that I can, are questions around why _I_ have consciousness. I understand the reasons why a body might develop meta cognition, and how it's advantageous for a being to be aware of it's thoughts. But none of this explains why my body is attached to _this_ consciousness and not another. 'Experience' is the key term I feel when the phenomenal aspect of consciousness is discussed, but I feel many don't understand this view point and attempt to explain it away as something reducable or inevitable.
If you accept that certain bodies have metacognition, then this arguably predicts that each body’s metacognition will perceive itself (the metacognition) and the body as two separate but connected entities. That is, your own perception that “you” are separate from your body would be predicted by the theory. That is, this perception would be predicted by the theory. But it is a mere perception, because the metacognition “machine” (within the brain) is physically part of the body, and hence inherently bound to it, even if its own internal perception differs from that.
I also understand this theory, but why is my perception mine, and not that of some other physical being. Why do I experience it. I know what many will answer and I can look at other beings and understand why that being might develop metacognition and see it's self as conscious, but I will never understand why I should inhabit/own/experience a consciousness from my own internal view point.
It's maybe the other way around - aka conciousness has you, like fish in a net. What if this conciousness and other ones are exactly the same?
But it's hard to think and reason about it really because of our own self-addiction. Kinda like kids high on ice cream can't really care what broccolli tastes like (or the other way around).
Also because consciousness doesn't really need you/us to think about it or discover it because it's kinda the only thing that's here.
