I like the observation made in a recent post on HN. It made a point that consciousness revolves around unity: you perceive yourself as one entity, not many. However science today sees the world as a collection of small things interacting together: atoms, particles, etc. In this model there is no room for unity: when we study a tornado, we really mean a collection of atoms bound by some forces, and the name "tornado" refers to a fictious entity that doesn't objectively exist. Similarly, in this model we are a just pile of neurons, while consciousness is a fiction. And I believe science is right that in a world made of particles life and consciousness cannot arise: only their imitations are possible. Luckily, our world isn't made of particles, but of quantum fields in which particles are transient illusions, like that tornado, while the principle of unity is supreme. Quantum entanglement is an example of two particles acting as one, while their unity cannot be reduced to a system of two isolated particles. The internal state of this entangled pair isn't simply unknown, it doesn't exist until it materialises. This is where consciousness may be hiding: a large group of entangled particles acting as one.