a magazine that aims to raise the political 'consciousness' of teenagers [=to make teenagers more aware of political issues]
a crisis that has faded from the public 'consciousness' [=that the public no longer remembers or thinks about]
She experienced a brief loss of 'consciousness'. = She 'lost consciousness' [=became unconscious] briefly.
(..) There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops (..)2016 TvShow: Westworld Title: Trace Decay Season: 1 Episode 8