Consciousness is about self-awareness and it does not strictly require nondeterminism or true free will; it is possible to have a universe with conscious agents

Consciousness is about self-awareness and it does not strictly require nondeterminism or true free will; it is possible to have a universe with conscious agents who aim to change things and experience these changes, however their aims, choices, attempts at change and any success is fully deterministic, what happened is happened.