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I imagine my consciousness as a communion of all my cells... a central decision-making council, if you like.

If my cells are in conflict or disagreement about what action to take (which I presume they often are), my consciousness resolves this by taking a decision.

As such, I find it likely that this sense and experience of consciousness is shared by all, or almost all, multi-cellular organisms on the same evolutionary tree of life.