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It really doesn't matter to know exactly what consciousness is.

Because high levels of intelligence and auto-drive can fully operate complexly enough to seem "conscious".

I would start a research stating exactly what would constitute a "conscious human", maybe we could find not every human on the planet is actually conscious.

Maybe most people are just looping into some psychological / environmental / sociological context, just like scripts running happily in loop, but not stepping outside its own code, at least not intentionally.

The hypoteshis of humans being complex algorithms, beside the tabu chit-chat, implies the possibility of hacking minds just we can hack programs, looking for their bugs, triggering exploits to fully manage humans into a different setup, in order to make them work towards a different goal from what they were originally intended (having being pre-programmed by the society and/or parents).