Hello Deepak, and thanks for another great article.
Though we may never know WHAT the abstraction of consciousness is, we should be able to evolve a satisfying and scientifically compliant description of HOW an immaterial reality interacts with a material brain. I think we can learn something useful about the process through possibilities offered by quantized space, non-locality, and the observer effect— space-time “clues” to the workings of an abstract entity and the experiential process. (more on this …)
And as we work together, we should remember that abstraction, while outside of physics . . . is not outside of Nature!