i believe the term “consciusness”may be applied, in very general terms, as “the ability or capacity to SEE what happens, what exists, what is going on in our mind” . But, the things is that IN our mind there are SO many “things” going on!! Imagine that the term UNCONSCIOUS” has a meaning ONLY AFTER you understand what “conscious” means (something like “the absence on consciousness”!
So, when I say “SEE” I´m trying to wrap up an elephant in a very liittle piece of paper. The term “see” could be expanded to SEE, LEARN, EXPERIENCE, FIND OUT, FEEL, SENSE, ETC. But in the end, there is “A seer” trying to figure out a whole world, that is going on inside his head, inside himself. And this world going on inside his head is unfathomable!!!

my dad ( a biochemist extremely curious and studious, an amateur scientisit, but a positivist) didn´t believe in the soul, because he couldn´t see it, the mind was a great mistery for him.
It is amazing that finally humanity is starting to find answers to such a big mistery. It opens the possibility for so many ” professionals of the mind ” and scientisits to join forces and do research in a completely unknown ( mainly in Occidental knowledge) world.