Maybe their just 2 sides of the same coin. Could it be that the reason why consciousness transforms matter is that they could interact more efficient? To reduce the resistance from matter to receive consciousness , that way the cycle of popping in and out of existence can speed up to a pace where it seems as if our bodies are constantly animated but in fact it dies and resurrects at a very high speed so no one notices and we think we are this persona, the host which is in fact but a point of reference to observe itself. These cycles can be observed everywhere at different speeds and we divide them in to different steps: for example day and night, life and death; a year with it's seasons, ...