{Jon Rappoport: The brain has no more ability to spawn consciousness than a rock does.}
Air has no more ability to move sand then a rock does — wait, that is not correct.
First, the brain and a rock are of different chemical compositions.
Second, the brain has a different set of chemical reactions then any rock would.
Third, the structure of a brain is different from a rock.
So, yes, the brain has more ability to spawn consciousness (defining consciousness as being self-aware, which only a few animals have that capability).
In fact, it has evolved to have that capability.
Chemistry my dear Rappoport, chemistry. It can make a human conscious. It can change sodium and chlorine into another substance that does not have the properties of sodium or of chloride. Look up common table salt.

{Michael: A radio is not the music and news stations that it receives}
No, but the radio is designed to receive the modulated EM energy and demodulate and amplify it.
But the signal it receives ‘proceeds’ from a transmitter.
Consciousness is not something being transmitted from somewhere out there, it is the activity of a brain.

The flaw with this logic is that each side of a box prevents movement in one direction, so when assembled into a box, movement is restricted in all directions.

That’s how the brain could produce consciousness, without individual brain cells being “conscious” themselves. derp!