i don`t think it was possible to define consciousness before the law changed on environment information

prior to law change all we possessed to define consciousness was incoming sensation
light via eyes
sound via ears
touch via skin
so
we were forced to accept that everything came into our body from outside because we were allowed to know light and sound traveled through air, in the case of sound and what we were told was a vacuum, in the case of light
therefore everything we called consciousness must materialize inside our body/head
we were even told to doubt there was really anything outside of us and hinted at the whole experience is an allusion
both us and "it" that comes in

now the law has changed we have mediums that are everywhere of electrical/magnetic nature
and
we are allowed to utilize fields in our description
so for the first time we can consider that we ourselves "reach out" to detect real (not illusion) objects, objects that are really there
so
consciousness, just like our auras which are now legal to possess, can be shown to exist outside of our bodies
this is why when we look at the back of someone
they mostly notice
our consciousness has effect outside of our bodies