[fifnir]

>Conscious experience is a seamless unified whole.

That's not necessarily true. We experience vision as a unified whole as well, but we have a blind spot as well. How would you argue that consciousness is a seamless whole and not just the illusion of one?

[hackinthebochs]

Our awareness of the outside world isn't seamless, e.g. our blindspot. But our experience of the outside world is seamless. This experience is normally what consciousness refers to, i.e. qualia.

[musingsole]

You also have an argument with saccades, not just the eye's blind spot.

And in looking closely at electrical currents, is there really an entity or is it just a of collection independent electrons acting on each other?

Still, to look at the current and imagine that collective action creates a higher order entity (like the water in a river) is really poetic -- even if it doesn't turn out to be the case.