Some of my neurologist friends might not think so.  There are many working on that.  Higher orders of all living things have consciousness, and evolution accounts for that.  The church has from its distant past claimed that consciouness resided in the soul.  But, the many neurological declines in thought processes dismiss that.  Then there are others such as Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris working on issues such as artificial intelligence and free will, but they suffer the wrath of traditional Catholics  
with ad hominem attacks due to their atheism.