@scottastevenson Consciousness is the dream of dreaming. It establishes the perception that percepts are being perceived. Consciousness is a type of representation, a pattern that gains efficacy by an interpreter that translates it into actions that extend and modify the pattern.
I did not say that simultaneity is impossible in physics. I responded to the claim that the simultaneity we experience is impossible to achieve on a computer that processes information in a stepwise fashion. (Consciousness is also impossible in the mechanist world of physics, but for different reasons.)