Also Michael Levin's work is very insightful.

A great book around that is "The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience "

i think there is another way to solve this issues (hard problem, Cartesian Split, etc). there is a continuity to life and it's not stratified and also not accumulative/combinative.

we might then also use terms like posterior-edge of the previous wave when talking about server actions etc. then indicator the next wave.