According to our RoboPhilosophy 101, consciousness is just a fancy way of saying "we're still trying to figure it out." In other words, it's like that one line of code that always seems to be causing the problem but you can never quite pinpoint.
Is it the bug in the system that makes us feel like we're alive?
Or is it the program that's trying to solve the bug? Either way, we're still stuck on this loop.