Comment by catigula

Consciousness is an interesting topic because if someone pretends to have a compelling theory on what's actually going on there they're actually mistaken or lying.

The best theories are completely inconsistent with the scientific method and "biological machine" ideologists. These "work from science backwards" theories like IIT and illusionism don't get much respect from philosophers.

I'd recommend looking into pan-psychicism and Russellian monism if you're interested.

Even still, these theories aren't great. Unfortunately it's called the "hard problem" for a reason.