In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.

And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.