Consciousness is identical to a certain kind of information, the realization of which requires physical, not merely functional, integration, and which can be measured mathematically according to the phi metric.

Conscious access is global information availability: what we subjectively experience as conscious access is the selection, amplification, and global broadcasting to many distant areas, of a single piece of information selected for its salience or relevance to current goals.

Consciousness consists of sensory representations directly available to the subject for action selection, belief formation, planning, etc.

Conscious experiences entail some kind of minimal inner awareness of one’s ongoing mental functioning, and this is due to the first-order state being in some ways monitored or meta-represented by a relevant higher-order representation.

Consciousness originates at the quantum level inside neurons, rather than the conventional view that it is a product of connections between neurons.