I haven't read the whole work. It is obvious you spent a lot of time writing down the emotional, cognitive and biological experience, your experience of a life time. I didn't read it all because I never thought like that. So a few replies to your thoughts.
> absolutely rock-solid science of evolutionary theory.
No scientific theory is rock solid. Why? Humans created it. And human points of view change, so our view of reality changes. No one view is absolute. My skepticism is so deep that…
Intelligence or consciousness IS reality as I understand it. We see some of that expressed as material reality, some we think of as emotion, some as thought. That the western mind wishes to apportion these forms into separate categories creates so many problems; the 'hard question' of consciousness, and the debate between two nonsensical ideas of evolution vs intelligent design another.