We understand horniness a little better than we do consciousness. And is consciousness rare or do we just not know how to recognize it? Universal consciousness fits the Occam's Razor test just as well as the idea of meat-based consciousness, and has a much longer history in human belief systems. The Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution made us arrogant, and mainstream science chucked out everything that looked a little woo-woo, no matter how many people were experiencing it.

Not that I'm opposed to mainstream science; it gave us antibiotics, nuclear weapons and wifi. But a lot of people got bent out of shape when the weird nature of quantum theory started to show itself, until we collectively decided not worry to about understanding it and just accept that it was useful for building cool technology.

I'm not going to delve into the misuse of "quantum" as an idiot synonym for magical thinking in the Oprahsphere and related domains. Clearly there's a lot of ignorance on the topic out there but that doesn't mean some of the woo woo stuff doesn't have basis in fact.

Wait, how did I get here? Oh yeah, there's a lot of stuff --like the limited nature of consciousness--that's become default thinking for no obvious reason except that it's untestable. Which is fine if you're building a microchip. but doesn't work for philosophy. It seems more likely to me that consciousness is the default.

Wait til you see the story I'm working on about UFOs, faerie, and trickster god archetypes :)