Humans built absurd metaphysical concepts to argue that consciousness isn't an emergent property of matter. Partly because the pride of being fundamentally different, of having a purpose alien to everything else in the universe, is too hard to swallow. And now it's so hard to believe that something else, which is unquestionably an emergent product of matter, can exhibit a trait we assumed could only emerge from consciousness. It's less like living under a rock and more like a refusal to accept that something we considered uniquely human might not be.