Comment by harha_

I have a really hard time grasping what consciousness truly is. Why is it so that our brain processing information the way it does it causes us to experience the world around us. Who am I to be born in here, to experience my life, what makes the matter that constructs my brain "special" to manifest this consciousness? After all it's just information being processed using certain molecular structures, how does it differ from any other kind of information processing system, eg. a computer.