[neutralino]

Seeing as though consciousness is the monthly theme, I feel like I should at least try to learn something about it. So, to being this search, does anyone have an actual definition of consciousness? Of course, it may be something that cannot be defined, and if so I'll withdraw my question but, being a scientist and really a mathematician at heart, I first like a definition of something that I am trying to understand, before looking at properties of that thing.

So, I'm opening up the floor to comments/questions/discussion, and hope someone can help me out with the question What is consciousness?