Mainstream “science” keeps insisting consciousness is “awareness” or associated with memories. It is not. Memory and temporal feedback give consciousness something to do. The association makes something happening more apparent.
Consciousness is most technically the echo chamber of existential being. I like to say “inflection of the potential of existential being” which is not always well received. Yes the quantum holographic domain, which you may dismiss as “magical” until something irrefutable makes you look foolish for doing so.
Awareness is the tip of consciousness, temporal propagation of cognitive technology.
We are of consciousness whether we are awake, aware, or can remember.
Quantum holographic memory will reveal the nature of consciousness when science and technology can understand as much. The qubit is a dead end, that will be an irrefutable sign.
In the meanwhile, this clumsy misassociation with awareness or being awake is unnecessary and counterproductive.