The first sentence of the OP’s second paragraph is my cue to respond.
- For the benefit of thosewho didn’t follow or don’t remember the short walk that Nelson Garcia, initiator of Reasons why metaphysics and philosophy of mind are needed to figure out human origins, and I had, I offer the following recapitulation of that walk.
- In his OP, Nelson wrote:
- “I claim: seeing or hearing anything in the external world is impossible, and by extension it is also impossible to smell, taste, or dermal feel by touch anything located in the external world.”
- “…what is cognized is not something located in the external world, only the appearance-less essence of what is cognized is located in the external world and it is mind what provides all cognized appearances and details.”
- “In other words, the external world is constituted by force (different levels of force) and appearances or details do not exist there independently, it is only stimuli promoters what lead to appearances or details when mind does its job using the five human senses.”
- And later, Nelson confirmed that the 5th chapter of a book that he had written was entitled: “Consciousness” which, together with his comments above, moved me to write the post which inspired this thread’s OP, sharing the now “infamous” and, I daresay, maligned Time magazine article: "Why You’re Pretty Much Unconscious All the Time” [Consciousness].
- Subsequent to my response to Nelson, he replied:
- “Having made [my] claims I doubt very much you could compare what scientists are discussing about scientific characteristics of consciousness with my new metaphysical concepts on the nature of awareness, consciousness, reception, and perception.”
- “…one key element I must state at this point, what I present is an explanation of Intelligent Design, not evolution, I do not recognize evolution; only a biological development directed by genetic instructions which were programmed at the moment of indirect creation of the chain of species.”
- To which, I replied: “Ahhh! That explains the “disconnect” that I experienced when reading your OP. Not to worry; you’ll be better off ignoring me. Take care on Biologos’ “bumper-car” court. Keep your helmet on and your seat belt strapped.”
In other words: If I had realized where Nelson Garcia was coming from and where he was headed, I would never have meddled in his thread. And if I had not meddled in his thread, I would not have picked up new members in my growing fan club. 
That said, I now find it incumbent on me to explain to new members in my fan club that, although you may think my source for “cutting edge”, “breaking news”, latest scientific discoveries is from Time magazine articles, that’s not true.