Quote:the current guess from science is
Science does not "guess".
You provided no reference from a mine-line neuroscientist for this woo crap you support.
(You claim to have an education .... LOL)
Paramecium do not "appear" to be conscious. They have REFLEXES, built in by evolution. A "reflex" is not a conscious choice.
There is NOT ONE instance EVER, where paramecia appear to make a choice COUNTER to what one would expect from its reflexes.
You STILL have not explained IN YOUR OWN WORDS what the Penrose experiment proves and supports.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist

Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist