Defining consciousness as a mental model of attention seems pretty accurate and useful, maybe a bit incomplete, but the most striking thing about this article was the illustrated "extramission theory" of vision. I've never even heard of this concept, and apparently it's huge.

"a study by the psychologist Gerald Winer and colleagues at the University of Ohio in 2002 found that about half of American college students also think that we see because of rays that come out of the eyes."