But it did come from nothingness. To exist at all, existence was required to rebel from the innate default of nothingness.
>fucking retarded to say a bunch of chemical reactions between nerve cells can create consciousness
It seems you do not appreciate the miracle of atoms. Little bits of unitized energy, singulated into their own self contained independent existences. could you truly be so blind to the magic of that? Haha. Of course mechanisms can manifest between such powerful starting instrumentation, inducing ever further manifestations of yet more advanced mechanisms and hierarchies. This eventually leads to the phenomena of data transference - the soul being the ultimate recording instrumentation, ascribing all your interactions with your companion atomic structures - a singularity devoted to you and only you, containing all that you are, always there ready to receive more that is you and your story and individual perspective on the rest of reality. A celestial SSD with nigh infinite storage capacity, always loyally encrypted to your perfectly unique identification. Here is your You.