The working definition is "I am conscious, I know it. Anything that looks sufficiently like me is presumed to have consciousness."
(I'd have gone further but I ran out of applicable anthro- terms)
It does feel a lot like the definition of "life" though. That's also a slippery moving-goalposts kind of thing.
LLMs should make us take seriously that the whole idea of consciousness is just superstition and unnecessary.
That definition is precisely how people define something that isn't real and doesn't exist.
If you can get there, it is quite amusing to think about a huge group of people who would think the idea of angels as complete foolish superstition but consciousness? Of course, we just haven't located this extra property of the brain, yet! It is there though, I know it is because I know is.
It is sometimes suggested that we cannot study it without a definition, but definitions are written (and rewritten) as we acquire knowledge. It is plausible that studying the above will lead to explanations.
As Thomas Nagel put it, science is the view from nowhere. There is nothing experiential about the physical understanding of the world. And yet we are part of that world.