I agree with the premise. Consciousness, when you try to describe it without actually referencing one's experience of it, is hard to fully understand. It's Iike describing color to a blind person, or sound to a deaf person, there is an innate sensory experience that qualifies the description, without which, it is hard to truly understand.

What is cool is that consciousness is the product of unconsciousness - over time inanimate molecules combined differently, and given the right circumstances we somehow get cellular life, and finally conscious organisms, all built from stardust.