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You're missing the basic problem: 'neurons' are part of the map, not the territory. The territory is made up of quarks, spacetime and probability amplitudes. What's the set of configurations of quarks which feels from the inside like thinking or like the color red? How can you be so confident that no magic is involved in this "how it feels from the inside" business, while casually talking about configurations of neurons?
Do you demand the exact wave function?
I was never much comfortable with "consciousness is how thinking feels from inside" explanation, since it hardly explains anything. However, the alternatives are non-explanations even more. Unless the hypothesis predicts something testable, it is useless. The position that no non-standard physics is involved is a kind of default which is held whenever there are no clear reasons to think otherwise, that's all.