Consciousness as a Problem

I must admit I have never thought of consciousness as anything less than miraculous. The underdevelopment of my thoughts to this could be equated to a childlike view. However, I am not alone, as these newly elected attempts toward an understanding of such rarity is a popular topic among scientist today. With the examination of the phenomena from a scientific standpoint in its early stages it is their next big conquest to define the mind. Unfortunately to not have concrete evidence for a definite supportive base from which to branch, philosophical ideas swarm about my mind and I find myself intrigued with the problem and yet reserved to their initial findings. The possibility for them to be able to address every aspect of the issue leaves me holding out in hopes that this task will be, as with any large theory, like the cheese of the Swiss, riddled with holes.
It's not that I don't feel that they could make and will make important discoveries that will embetter our species and the understanding of ourselves, our circumstance, and our function in this great mechanism we call life. It is, on the other hand, that I don't feel completely prepared to relinquish all of my notions of specialness, and greater purpose with this connectivity through a great conscious. I don't know if space for this will be left in the emerging theories, as there are conflicting motives and lines of research reaching for different ends. But I do know that based on the scientific communities need for evidential reinforcement of their assertions, that the conclusions they arrive at will be well thought, proven, and connected to the reality we are privy to see. That is a comfort. It is also nice to know ideas have a process by which they are to be proven making change gradual allowing the acceptance of whatever emerges to be smooth acclimating the generations through a series of results that taking steps rather than leaps.