[88913527]

Bacteria using their flagella to move away from danger seems like a conscious decision to me. It's analogous to the "Are viruses life?" question, where on the fringe it does get a bit more interesting. Any poorly defined term is going to raise interesting questions on its edge cases.

[Turskarama]

A fridge turns on when the temperature sensor detects that it's too warm inside, is that consciousness?

[88913527]

Can a temperature sensor have experiences? It's stateless. Maybe that's an element to it. To revise, inputs and outputs with some concept of statefulness.

[Solvency]

Relative to its own perspective and contextual existence, sure, yes it is. Does that intimidate your human consciousness for some reason?

[Turskarama]

I think if you're going to define consciousness this simply then the word ceases to have any real meaning.

[scatterhead]

This is obviously not what people mean when they use the word. You've "resolved" the difficulty by just avoiding it.