Is Consciousness Primary Rather Than Emergent?

On the limitations of Physicalism in understanding consciousness

I do not want to die.

I REALLY do not want to die because I am terrified of the void and the nothingness that I would confront.

It is from this desire not to die and the terror of death that the idea of Mind Uploading for eternal life is so compelling to me and has become an obsession. This fear of death, mind uploading, and eternal life conceptualized in Transhumanism, Extropianism…