There are also some who confuse consciousness with intelligence. The word consciousness isn't even defined in the western culture: people see it as a some woo t

There are also some who confuse consciousness with intelligence. The word consciousness isn't even defined in the western culture: people see it as a some woo that makes them different from a chair. In sanskrit, the word consciousness means just perception; "consciousness arises from interaction with matter". The definition from dictionary.com is a mishup of related things: consciousness somehow turned into awareness, then into self-awareness and then even gained rudimentary mind. That's a whole evolution in one definition.