Consciousness definition

Consciousness is the ability of an entity to:

1. observe reality
2. be aware of its own limits within reality, i.e. which parts of reality are external and which internal to itself
3. symbolically internalize aspects of its own observations in the forms of data and models
4. process the data using the models
5. use the output of processing in 4 to (re)act both internally and externally to itself.