To me consciousness is a lot like echo-location used by dolphins to navigate; and find food. A cell; or liquidic drop, is curved on its exterior surface. It is a lens; and when struck by light; it refracts and focuses that light; and is itself set into rotation; as it focuses light into a convergent spear of light. That circular motion within the lens; cell; or liquidic drop; refracts light around an axis of motion, within and beyond the lens. Its color of the spectrum is forced to a focal spear point; then on to a divergence and refractory degree; specific to each color. The motion within the lens or cell causes the liquidic drop to emit waves into the air surrounding the drop. The motion and the waves create a slight sound; which in part returns in the direction of the original source of the light, cell, or eye of consciousness. That which is seeing; is thus being seen; and consciousness can then know that its form exists; and can be conscious of its existence; which is created in the attraction of the image.
The motion created by the focus of light; can correctly be called the motion of gravitation; the attraction created by the bipolar motion of the drop; within the drop; assembles a mass which contains gravity. The creation of mass; is an action of consciousness. Everything is created in, and by, the image.