For philosophers that adhere to modern or post-modern schools of thought consciousness is usually related to being self-aware enough to set up a framework to re

For philosophers that adhere to modern or post-modern schools of thought consciousness is usually related to being self-aware enough to set up a framework to reason about things like "what is consciousness" or ask oneself or ourselves if we have a higher purpose besides keeping our bodies alive. The attention framework allows some quick thought tricks like equating your AIs behavior to non-human animal behavior and then you can use frameworks from ecology or biology to reason about it. Other frameworks allow for more sophisticated experiments like setting up AIs to interact against each-other and see if they come up with systems or concepts similar to sociology or economy or at least reason that they decided that those were not useful. the attention framework needs to be stretched a bit to be able to justify this experiments.