"...does this wonderful human brain-body explain human consciousness? Does it explain our sense of ourselves as actively engaging the world, or reflecting on ourselves, or especially reflecting on the fact that we are conscious? With human consciousness we come to a situation we have not faced in any of the other levels of the cosmic organization. We experience our own consciousness subjectively, as subjects, from the inside. All the other levels of organization we had observed from the outside, objectively, seeing them as objects of our cognition. But in the case of our consciousness, we do something more than and quite different from knowing it as an object for our cognition. We know it by being it."
God’s Ecstasy: The Creation of a Self-Creating World, by Beatrice Bruteau, pp.152-53.