What Is Your Definition of Consciousness?

In animals like us, or like closely related species like dogs and cats and monkeys, it seems to require cortex e. This consciousness required nervous system. We don't know o it's not clear. So then you need a theory of consciousness. If we just rely on our intuition, well, i think a treeis conscious because it's alive. Then it just gets er. How do you know? But that's a question. What what wa test? Ultimately you have we need a fundamental theory - integrated information theory. That says, you know, rigorously, starting somewhere with ontology or causal power,. something like that, what exists, what doesn't exist, ind what has consciousness