Thanks for those constructive criticisms. You're right, there's a lot more to say about consciousness. I'll write something else specifically on qualia.

As for agency and feeling closer to nature rather than alienated, I'd emphasize the Heideggerian, pragmatic aspect of that agency, in which case the "nature" we feel connected to isn't the wilderness but a mentally instrumentalized environment. We feel connected to the parts of nature that we understand and can use when we're acting as purposive agents.

Nature in its wild starkness is the natural disaster or the scary forest that children are afraid to enter. But when we grow up, we thrive in domesticated regions, even if we must tame them only in our imagination, as we rely on our background knowledge of how to exploit some natural processes in a desert or a jungle.

This is an interesting topic, too, so I'll write on it in relation to consciousness.