Consciousness. What is it? (South Austin)

Are you conscious? What is consciousness? Is it merely a product or illusion created by our brains? Or is there something more going on? [) Some possible definitions of conscious: 1. aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc. 2. fully aware of or sensitive to something (often followed by of): conscious of one's own faults; He wasn't conscious of the gossip about his past. 3.having the mental faculties fully active: He was conscious during the operation. 3. known to oneself; felt: conscious guilt. 4. aware of what one is doing: a conscious liar. 5. aware of oneself; self-conscious. 6. deliberate; intentional: a conscious insult; a conscious effort. 7. the conscious, Psychoanalysis. the part of the mind comprising psychic material of which the individual is aware. [http://nautil.us/blog/how-star-trek-may-show-the-emergence-of-human-consciousness](http://nautil.us/blog/how-star-trek-may-show-the-emergence-of-human-consciousness) Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? [http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness](http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness)