We throw rocks

The question of what kinds of physical systems are conscious “is one of the deepest, most fascinating problems in all of science,” wrote the computer scientist Scott Aaronson of the University of Texas at Austin. “I don’t know of any philosophical reason why [it] should be inherently unsolvable” — but “humans seem nowhere close to solving it.”

We stood up and threw a rock.  Then we practiced the art of throwing a rock by watching ourselves throw a rock.  That is consciousness, the art of self training via repeated trials.