It is interesting to me that the only thing in the universe that we can observe directly it's also thought to be the least understood.

We experience physical phenomena by proxy only - through the senses and sensors we built, followed by an interpretation by our brain; while we can observe our consciousness by just observing ourselves from "within".

I do not mean to question the paper, just pointing out that I find this fascinating.

In fact I strongly believe that consciousness is - in the end - the result of physical processes.

What I do question is that we understand what we mean by "physics". Physics is a model of the world, a model that we created based on our understanding how things ought to be, namely that all things are separate and that thus we can explain reality (and hence consciousness) by analyzing (i.e. dividing) the model more and more. Who says that that is a correct representation of the world?