Do you even recognize your own consciousness?
Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.
... they are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an activity that's just a little bit more noble than the activity we engaged in a moment before.
I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.
Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.
As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.