Gosh . . . . some folks here are really down on your question n_n. It was as if your question somehow offended them. Or . . . . perhaps it was like salt in a wound. Looking at conscoiusness can be scary; we can all be a bit defensive when we are a bit frightened. The online Oxford Dictionary defines "belief" as - 'an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof'. So belief is not a word I would use regarding my experience of consciousness. That experience is one of a suite of feelings, all connected but fluid and variable. So, 'exact definition' is not easy but this works for me - ' I am a location of unexpected feelings '. No shareable proof, sorry. Afterall, I might be a butterfly dreaming I am a human being. But we seem to get by without proof. If any ask me, I say you can find proof by looking inside, at your own feelings, be your own lab, replicate what others say they have found by finding it yourself. Good luck.
Do you believe in consciousness?
If you do what exactly would you define it as?
and what evidence do you have for its existence?