Let's consider John's text C. Eccles ( Nobel), one of the fathers of the interactionnisme (recognized as dualism) :

"At each moment, the consciousness gives of global lived experiences of diverse complex domains which assume brain's activity ; for example, the consciousness would give to a mammal the global lived experience of a visual or tactile world, in order to guide his behavior much better than the visual or tactile sensations passed on by the only cortical areas acting as a robot. So, the conscious experiences such as the feelings should favor species in fight for evolution ....
The consciousness influences events of the neocortex with of the discernment and understanding.
It would seem that the consciousness knows all the acquired potentialities of the brain .
The consciousness has to have for example a memory that enables it from acting quickly and skillfully in order to utilize the appropriate remembrances stored in brain ." (Cf. How the Self Controls Its Brain).

How must we understand expression "at each moment, the consciousness gives …" ?,
what is this consciousness which knows all potentialities of the brain ?

You realize, again, ambiguity of the concept : consciousness ; that is why only the notion of consciousness state is realistic.
It is a state of being of two orders (dual) that mysteriously necessitates of the biophysic activities, notably bio-cerebral, and of the transcendent activities,
a transcendent state which enables to creative entity who animates us, from recognizing herself, in the me (I, ego, subject, spirit).
Nevertheless,
"the mental and neuronal processes are overlapped to such a degree .... that no craftiness will enable us to separate them." (Cf. Discussion with John Eccles reported by Derek Denton).

Besides, we must remember that "virtualities" which participate to knowledge are located in transcendent domain of the abstraction,
a domain which is not reserved to men because, for example, birds of prey have one of it ; indeed, they don't go directly on their preys, but on virtual points situated to crossing of anticipated trajectories, their trajectory and those of their future victims.

Thus, recognition of this transcendent domain,
ipso facto, which is the expression of a universal domain because he cannot exist of punctual transcendent domain (there are only "punctual manifestations" of transcendent state),
is absolutely necessary.
Let us add that consciousness, more exactly, consciousness state is a field which does not correspond :
"at a known physical field, as the electromagnetism, gravitation, … Consciousness is not describable by observable physical events or by established physical theories." (cf. Mind time - Benjamin Libet).
For that, ignored by intelligentsia, we had to name it by word : spacimplicatio (contraction of Latin words spatium and implicatio) ; according to us, it is implication domain of the Divine in world.

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G. M. Edelman does not hesitate to write :
"A global and pertinent theory of the brain's function has to propose a scientific model of the consciousness. But, to be acceptable scientifically, this model has to avoid Cartesian dilemma. In other words, this model must be exclusively physical.",

but too :
"The subjective particularities relative to self-awareness, usage of the first person, sense, …, are nothing more that subjective processes of a person who has a consciousness of superior degree …",
"The will requires consciousness of an objective and a capacity to command action (sensation and perception are therefore necessary). " (Cf. The Remembered Present).

Let's beware to this speeches, the will requires nothing, cannot require.
It's a human faculty associated to the action.

Besides, let's emphasize his poor understanding of the "sense".
Edelman does not seem to have perceived dual character of the memorization process and of the transmission process of information, notably fact that any organization and any piece of information presupposes interpretation,
a faculty which is not of physical order as the energies and matter.
He is not the only one, alas !

Also let's mention F.Crick and C.Koch :

"… according to our fundamental hypothesis, it is useful to consider consciousness as being correlated to a precise type of activities made by a subset of cortical neurons …
Information relative to a single object is diffused in the whole encephalon. There is therefore certainly a means to impose a temporary unity for all activities of the neurons concerned to this precise moment ...
It is possible that this unit is obtained with cooperation of the swift mechanism of the attention, exact nature of which is unknown." (Cf. Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness),
"… and it is probably attention which enables representations of threedimensional objects and of objects of more cognitive nature…" (Cf. - Consciousness - Scientific American, 1992).

We adhere gladly to these analyses but, first and foremost, we consider that all phenomena, all activities :physical, biophysical, cognitive, ..., are also, "fruits" of transcendent activities (activities of transcendent order),
and we emphasize, again, that attention is not "master of the sense", but a faculty of creative entity who animates us.
Let's remind that Francis Crick, discoverer with James Watson, in 1953, of the deoxyribonucleic acid's structure (DNA), till end of his life (in July, 2004), interrogated himself with regard to consciousness,
particularly, on " what takes place in our brain, when we see something ".
He imagined even, of the consciousness's neurons. 

As for the biological processes organizations, notably genetic, let's insist again, they require at the same moment,
- of sense's vectors as electromagnetic waves that are associated to particles, atoms et molecules, and memories,
- and the innate interpretation of characteristics of these vectors and memories (the biological words are of specific groups of electromagnetic waves).
Of essential facts which are always ignored !

Then, how not to smile when scientists speak :
- "of epigenetic laws that give direction for development of an anatomical, physiological, psychological, cognitive characteristics",
- "of epigenetic rules managing the penetration and the selectivity of the cultural genes, which would make for example, that the colors become some common characteristics of outer objects. " (cf. According to specialized literature).
A if laws and rules had faculties to recognize, judge, choose, ..., and to act !