We don’t have an answer for you here, but if you’re interested in reading up on the topic, it’s called “the hard problem of consciousness”. Look up David Chalmers - one of the primary people writing about this currently. See the Wikipedia article on the hard problem of consciousness for more authors as well
TheDuke91 t1_iya9z0x wrote
Reply to ELI5: How do a bunch of lightly-electrified cells turn into consciousness? What causes the system to go from a “meat computer” to the subjective and immeasurable experience we call consciousness? by uniqueUsername_1024
We don’t have an answer for you here, but if you’re interested in reading up on the topic, it’s called “the hard problem of consciousness”. Look up David Chalmers - one of the primary people writing about this currently. See the Wikipedia article on the hard problem of consciousness for more authors as well