Consciousness is ill defined in humans or anything else. To me a more interesting question would be "Does the Sun contain exotic life?" E.g. as plasma life form

Consciousness is ill defined in humans or anything else. To me a more interesting question would be "Does the Sun contain exotic life?" E.g. as plasma life forms. Life can be defined as simply as a self-sustaining, localized, organized structure that uses energy and information to reverse the natural flow of increasing in the environment. The sun has ample supply of energy and information bandwidth (physical phase space) so I personally would not be at all surprised if plasma life forms have evolved in it. Perhaps this is where certain UFOs come from, our own Sun... See for example 2001 Space Odyssey for a similar take.