It's really not the same thing, its the complete opposite. It's brain->consciousness vs. consciousness->brain

I was just talking about the physicality of the brain, so it'd be (physical brain)->consciousness vs. consciousness->("physical" brain). Either way in all ways that matter to us the brain is physical.

I think of it similarly to how atoms are mostly empty space - we can know that's true but the main thing that matters most of the time is that you don't fall through the floor, so we reason about the world as if solid objects are actually solid