My advice is to watch out for confirmation bias. There are a lot of people in the world thinking about this problem and whatever it is that you or I are thinking about related to it is probably just as important as anyone else's ideas.

The only way through this is to vocalize what we're thinking in a clear way, such that those ideas take hold and manifest in others. Even though we may try, we can't build this alone and creating false vacuums isn't going to help much.

Consciousness itself is likely a result of having a body, emotions and thoughts.