Claims

The history of science and philosophy repeatedly shows humanity is not at the center of things and not unique: we are not the center of the universe, not separate from other animals, not created by God—and similarly, human consciousness is one way of being conscious among many possible forms, likely instantiable in different material substrates.

The analogy between the hard problem of life and hard problem of consciousness is imperfect because life's hard problem concerned objective functional properties (reproduction, adaptation, metabolism) that could in principle be mechanistically explained, whereas consciousness's hard problem concerns subjective phenomenal experience (first-person experience) which has no analog in the case of life except consciousness itself.