"Souls are conscious but the brain is not.
It is no more aware of itself
than a clock is aware of the concept of 8:39 a.m.
Q: Does a computer
understand the program it is running? 
A: No; electrons are merely flowing
through it directed by a mind.
Q: Is consciousness a mechanism performed by matter?
A movie does not derive from the flashing
pixels on a TV screen; it comes from a mind who intentionally organized
matter to convey a message. In every case we know, meaning is a product
of an immaterial mind.
A: Genesis 2:7 says, “the Lord God formed the
man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life, and the man became a living creature.”
Consciousness was not an
“emergent property” of dust.
Nor was the dust already conscious.
What made Adam come to life, able to perceive his
surroundings and experience the qualia from his newly-created senses,
and respond in semantically-rich words to his Maker, was the breath of
God—the life-giving bequest of an intelligent, wise, creative,
self-existent, self-aware One who gave his name as “I AM” (Exodus 3:14)." CEH