I don't know that you have really described consciousness.

A good place to start is to consider that plants don't seem to possess anything remotely resembling consciousness, though they are living and do respond to their envionment.

So what primarily distinguishes fauna from flora?

That we are organisms physically moving in our environment.

Now consider that the essential dynamic of consciousness is that it is a sequence of perceptions, like frames of a movie. Which would seem to be quite necessary, in order to intentionally navigate our environment.

Now consider a basic bias this introduces into our concept of reality; The primacy of time as the point of the present moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration.

The evident reality though, is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is this physical present, as the events form and dissolve.

There can be no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is necessarily "conserved," because it is what is present. Its changing form creates the effect of time.

So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns being generated go future to past.

With a wave, the energy is what drives it, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

In a factory, the product goes start to finish, future to past, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product. As lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Now consider that consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past.

Which would seem to suggest that we might understand consciousness as a form of energy, rather than neutral observer. Which might explain why consciousness is so compulsive and obsessive.

Yet as these organic entities, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through the forms precipitating out, further condensing and organizing them. Signals from the noise.

So while the mind might be the expression, the lens and filter of this flame within, trying to pin it down in terms of the information being processed doesn't go deep enough.

So while this doesn't solve the foundational issues, it does raise the question of whether machine processing of information leading to consciousness might be putting the cart before the horse. We shouldn't looking at it in terms of what it does, so much as what drives it. The cause before the effect.