[visarga]

> correlations between states of matter and claimed subjective experience

correlations between the bits in the video memory and the claimed IMDB score of the movie

I think you're looking for consciousness on the wrong level.

[ithkuil]

I think people often conflate consciousness with the perception of consciousness (or consciousness of consciousness, or meta-consciousness).

Imagine a being that is "conscious* of some experience, but lacks the ability of reflecting about the fact that it has just witnessed an experience. Is such a being "conscious"? Answers will vary but I suspect they vary because people are answering different questions. Some are thinking about the meta-consciousness and some about direct consciousness.