Consciousness is all of your inner experience. It's not about control or perception, that is it's not about what you can control and how you perceive things but

Consciousness is all of your inner experience. It's not about control or perception, that is it's not about what you can control and how you perceive things but that you can control and perceive things. I don't think there is any reason to doubt that fish and insects for that matter are conscious in that sense.