The concept of consciousness is particularly ephemeral. It has challenged philosophers, psychologists, physicist, and more. It is difficult. My approach to understanding a tough subject is to form a model that I can personally understand. We have followed this desideratum here by indicating that consciousness is a collective of three aspects of intelligent life: self-awareness, problem solving, and innovation. In defining consciousness, we seem to be challenging a problem for which any proposed solution generates new questions and new problems. But, here we go... For us to define consciousness leads to philosophical, psychological and emotional problems, as above and more. One way to attack the problem is to propose what would constitute consciousness in a computing machine. This has been well explored. No consensus has been achieved. In this note, we connect consciousness with the subjects of self-awareness, problem-solving, and innovation. Each seems to be a new and
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