Consciousness is the Entity's ability to interpret relevant signals, or the ability of being present within an Entity. Note that consciousness has gradients.
Antonym is unconsciousness.
Consciousness is related to awareness and feeling.
A Conscious Entity is an Ecosystem of Spirits.
Scope, or Being Present within an Entity
All entities, including the Universal Set of Existence, are members of another entity. Examples of being present include, being present in a conversation, being present in your thought experiment.
Being Present implies focus of energy toward the entity that you are aspiring to evolve (love).
Consciousness is the Entity's conscious perspective on Existence. Reality is the experience of consciousness, or the experience of a being perceiving existence.
Cultural Definition
Alert, awake. "The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious."
Aware. "I was conscious of a noise behind me."
Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness. "Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious."
The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
Consciousness is the quality or state of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: "Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives."
Higher Consciousness (youtube.com)
Pattern Expression
All Entities have Consciousness.
Inanimate Objects have full & unwavering consciousness on the physical system they are contained within.