Let's Talk About Consciousness - wtf is it?
Suppose you can remotely control a mechanical "avatar" that lives in a remote environment. You can get all its senses, you can move around the environment that is located into, etc etc.
You play for days with it and then you think you are the avatar's mechanical body. You start to identify with that mechanical body, thinking that IT IS YOU, and that the world that it lives is YOUR WORLD.
Then you start wondering where your consciousness originates... why are you conscious? You see your mechanic body but you cannot figure out where is your consciousness.
Of course you can't. Because you are not your mechanical body and your consciousness is not in your mechanical body. It is all RF-controlled. The source of consciousness is elsewhere.
Our brain is just a type of RF receiver/transmitter of consciousness for our real self that lives outside of this virtual reality. This is why consciousness is elusive. Because it's not here.
I'd rather say "because it's not there".
Good point man: when a consciousness seek for itself inside itself it's easy to reach the Truth!