The first problem with the nature of consciousness is describing what you mean by it. Try, and I guarantee you that someone will find a sponge, Apple product, or bathroom slipper that meets that definition.

Electro-magnetic radiation, on the other hands, is highly describable in precise, testable, repeatable terms.

When you can state Maxwell's Laws of Consciousness, we'll talk. And rename them "Grishka's".

> consciousness. Time might as well be an artifact of that.

Psychedelics can remove the sensation of time passing. But they are also modifying the experience of "consciousness" itself.

I got downvoted on here not so long ago for mentioning time as an emergent property of quantum consciousness so maybe it's controversial.