Can a temperature sensor have experiences? It's stateless. Maybe that's an element to it. To revise, inputs and outputs with some concept of statefulness.

Relative to its own perspective and contextual existence, sure, yes it is. Does that intimidate your human consciousness for some reason?

I think if you're going to define consciousness this simply then the word ceases to have any real meaning.

This is obviously not what people mean when they use the word. You've "resolved" the difficulty by just avoiding it.