"It's the coordination of potentially-independent loop-like organizations which is conscious." - Gordon Pask. You can't arbitrarily choose boundaries and ask "is the thing inside this boundary conscious" either. You have to choose LOOPS, such as a perception-action loop. It is in the way that perception-action loops coordinate through a whole organism and environment that correspond, in part, to the structure of consciousness. Consciousness is also inherently mysterious still. Consciousness may be studied via any concept that mirrors "A is conscious with B about C", such as "A coordinates with B about C", "A synchronizes with B about C", "A agrees with B about C", "A converses with B about C", and so on. A and B might be perception-action loops for instance, and C might be some kind of goal-oriented concept.
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