Speculation on organic consciousness is pretty much esoteric, too,

I don't disagree. I just don't see any reason for even an esoteric basis to speculate that consciousness is in any way analogous to computer software simply because "we invented this thing so we must apply it's logic to ourselves." It smacks of the "machine" view of how the human body works that became prevalent in medicine after industrialisation - and even today it is still a way of understanding human physiology that causes far more problems than it solves.

Ie, there's no speculative basis for it.