Not quite sure why this comment was voted down. We do try to simulate the world around us (or at least I do). While I don’t know if that is the root of consciousness, it seems to be a plausible claim that consciousness is the feeling of trying to simulate the universes resulting from different choices.
Consciousness is how the algorithms of the universal simulation feel from the inside. We are a self-aware simulation program.
Not quite sure why this comment was voted down. We do try to simulate the world around us (or at least I do). While I don’t know if that is the root of consciousness, it seems to be a plausible claim that consciousness is the feeling of trying to simulate the universes resulting from different choices.