it's so exciting to me that this community has some interest in consciousness. my background is 'hacker', but looking forward, I think consciousness is highly relevant (soon, we really will be able to hack our own brains, and when that happens, I think we'll care a lot about consciousness theory).

anyway, I've written some blog posts with some thoughts on this topic that I'll throw into the mix:

http://realgl.blogspot.com/2012/12/consciousness.html

http://realgl.blogspot.com/2012/06/dimension-of-interpretati...

(note that these posts were written maybe six months ago)