I tried but it was too long and started using math for things that aren't really applicable.

I do think that consciousness is not recognizable by us, when it might exist, due to the spatial and temporal interval in which we reside.

For example, a tree, or a galaxy, can be conscious, but we'd never notice with the time it takes for the tree to react to seasons or millenial-long climate changes, or the space that the galaxy changes over -- and the speed of light limiting its reactions.