Yeah I see what you're getting at Xei. However, I don't think that causality alone is a person's consciousness, but rather the consciousness is the spark that generates causality; causality fits more into the realm of thought than consciousness or awareness, because it can be created, while true awareness cannot.
By your reasoning, a calculator would be conscious, simply because it's calculations have a cause/reason. Let me explain, the calculator first responds to environmental stimuli - someone pressing the buttons - then reacts accordingly and with a purpose. The environmental stimuli is "2 + 2," so the calculator's chip goes through a series of "thoughts" that eventually produce an "action": displaying "4" on it's screen.
In a sense, the calculator's inventor would be the "consciousness" to the calculator's ability for causal "thought," but the calculator alone would have no awareness. Just because something has a cause or purpose, doesn't mean it is self-aware.
I think I might have some things confused in all that, so correct me if I understood what you were saying wrong.
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