Neither brain nor non-brain as the cause of consciousness is...

Neither brain nor non-brain as the cause of consciousness is supported by evidence. So it pays to be open minded about it, no?

Are you familiar with the double slit experiments? The implications of the results of this experiment, to me and many others, make room for the possibility that consciousness is not created by or limited to the biochemistry of the brain. That instead it is a separate and very real phenomena.