Like the surface tension of water being an emergent property of hydrogen bonding. The polar water molecules are like tiny magnets which link up. Zoom out trillions of trillions of molecules and you can see how water clings and acts strange, sometimes defying gravity.

If consciousness is really the result of unimaginably complex processing by thousands of layers of neural networks - then if that network breaks “you” vanish. Imagine going under anesthesia. If you had a soul, then why do you lose consciousness? Do the drugs affect your soul? No, they affect your reticular activation in your midbrain. We know how to stop someone being conscious by our technical understanding of the brain via science. When you die, your brain dies and your experiences vanish with it. There’s no brain to experience anymore. There’s no you.