I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right?

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.