Thank you for sharing this inquiry. However, it overlooks some 2000 years of rigorous inquiry into the nature of subjective consciousness — not in the West, but in India and Tibet. Alan Wallace, who is fluent in both Eastern and Western philosophic discourse, is a good information source on the difference between First Person and Third Person modes of inquiry. And while neuroscience belongs to the latter, consciousness belongs to the former. We can only discover the nature of our personal experience by looking deeply at it ourselves.