Is There a Connection Between the Physical World and Conscious Experiences?

I just want to put some contexts here which it wishes what to connect how this conversation we're having right now relates to the broader conversation about the hard problem of consciousness. So you spoke earlier about the train time table example of how just because things are correlated doesn't mean that one of them causes the other. There might be a whole other thing that is causing both. And er, without putting too much of a spoiler on it, i think your belief about ar our world is that we are missing a much deeper physical reality that causes both the physical world and our conscious experiences. M most of my colleagues assume that space, time and physical objects are fundamental things like neurons, exist whether or not