How does something like self, memory, recall, experience, qualia, reasoning, knowing, conceptualization, love, hate, character, personality, etc. come to be in the first place? It's evident to me it's orchestrated and constructed that these things come about from some sort of primitive yet powerful intellect. It's evident that because of such intellect consciousness must be an extra dimension of reality. To me evolution is ingenious and extremely smart yet also very savage. I said yes.
The experience of consciousness doesn't translate to purely physical terms. You can say it's just chemistry and electric but that explanation doesn't give you a demonstrable model. It's unproven with explanation gaps that are not going to be filled. It's also untestable. No third person access to someone's first person consciousness will be forthcoming.