A major but biased new paper on consciousness

Speaking for myself, I've long passed the point where C is not a product of the brain, and every single source of profound experience of the sort says that we are. (Science will only take you so far.)

And if you accept that C isn't a product of the brain, then how would you otherwise characterize us? And based on what sources?

Maybe you don't need to.  Maybe a mind/body being is enough.