Sufficiently complex cybernetic networks naturally form sustained boundaries between an inside and an outside and so form autopoietic cells with de facto unity, consciousness then emerging when it does so after the fact and riding on top of these effects of mind. Something like that would be the alternative account of the phenomena of phenomena. Is this coherent? Does it square with your experience? Or is one more of the tortuous ways in which conscious strives to mirror itself? And is not this apparent drive for self-reflection, or self-allegory, merely a mark of the epoch in which we find ourselves?