I am not singling you out a for the most part I agree with you.
Consider the following quote...
We also maintain that previously argued categories such as selfhood and phenomenal experience can be explained biologically in terms of patterns of neural activity. >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111444/
Yes... selfhood and phenomenal experience can be explained biologically in terms of patterns of neural activity.
But 'selfhood and phenomenal experience' is not the same as consciousness.
'selfhood and phenomenal experience' is created by many different areas of the brain not directly related to conscious states.
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/141/4/949/4676056
....the cerebellum is instrumental in constructing this sophisticated, yet subliminal, sense of self-and-other. But it is not simply the sense of self that is important, but also the fundamental, but largely hidden, contribution it makes to our sensory and physical interactions with the world.
It is, in some respects, the brain’s equivalent to our immune system. Distinguishing ‘self’ and ‘other’ is as important to our brain in our daily interactions with the physical world as it is to our immune system in recognizing our own tissues as different from an invading microbe.
These results link the cerebellum to the mechanism distinguishing self and other for tactile stimulation. They are fascinating in their own right but become even more interesting with the finding that these same approaches reveal that some human psychotic states fail to adequately distinguish ‘self’ from ‘other’. Blakemore et al. (2000) go on to describe experiments to determine whether patients with auditory hallucinations and/or passivity experiences were abnormally responsive to the sensory consequences of their own movements. Patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, or depression can suffer from auditory hallucinations such as the sound of voices in their head. They may also suffer from passivity experiences in which they experience their mind or body being under the influence or control of some kind of external force or agency.
Montgomery, John; Bodznick, David. Evolution of the Cerebellar Sense of Self . OUP Oxford. Kindle Edition.