You don't know what consciousness is, or even whether the name properly refers to anything, whether say, it can be 'isolated and cultured' out of the mass of 'experience', but taking it as something like the largest possible container that is still a container, it would seem that it is worthwhile to attempt to determine its geometry by putting more and more complex objects into it and seeing whether it shows a strain, and if so in what way. This seems to be what happens with artistic or cultural products which become more and more self-conscious, which incorporate their own meta-perspectives in more and more complex and dizzying spirals. For a while it could seem as if consciousness itself was expanding, expanding in place like space in cosmology. It seemed that way up until it became overt and then collapsed with the 'green meme'. All of that effort and consciousness did not expand at all, if anything it shattered, or rather the experimental apparatus shattered. Consciousness was entirely unchanged. That ought to tell us something, but what?