I have a theory of what Consciousness is which I based off a bunch of logic based arguments and analysis. It's complicated and one day I hope to put the whole thing on here but for now here's a simple version of it did I wrote in response to somebody's topic on online and decided to also put here.
All life has an awareness, even if it is a basic function like a reaction to a stimuli or that there is food that needs to be processed into energy. More complicated life is simply a larger amalgamation of reactions/awareness. If you're willing to break it down further then you can say that the universe is aware in itself that there are reactions on most basic levels like between chemicals and protons and electrons.
The fact that physics works universally supposes that there is a universal order, and in order for there to be an order there needs to be something which recognizes that order. For example, you can run computer code on a computer because the computer recognizes the order, but you cannot run computer code on a piece of paper because there is no mechanism that recognizes the order and so it has no meaning and as such no functionality.
Well this is the logical assumption I've made at least, that consciousness is not an emergent property, but is an evolution (an ever more complex combination) of pre-existing variables just like everything else in this universe.
