I think it's interesting to consider the extent of consciousness, too, because I don't find a one-point location model very useful. Maybe that's because a body is physically larger than a brain, and my experience of consciousness is strongly embodied.

*blink-blink* I've probably got more to say about that, but this is enough for 5am...

native Americans thought it was in the heart...
personally i live right behind my eyes...
and with every breath I take, but then, I'm emphysemic

billy

How primitive - I don't think so! Would you settle for "skirl bagpipes", or would that be even more uncivilised?

Q. What's an MJ? -- A. A maths joke.
Q. What's an (M + i J)? -- A. A complex maths joke.
Q. Why don't people laugh at the complex maths joke? -- A. Because the joke part is imaginary.
Q. Why is it a joke, then? -- A. Because the maths part is imaginary, too.

Like maths, consciousness is a human imagining, and also like maths, it's a useful imagining to share with other people if there's some agreement of terms. I agree that my consciousness can be seen a set of processes that takes part in my brain. Where I may part ways with you is that I think consciousness can also be seen as a distributed process. Given a black-box brain with input/output streams, I can certainly marvel over what goes on inside that box. What's also remarkable is the enormously complex feedback loops between input and output streams, and how much they affect what goes in the box. SO much, that I think it useful to consider some of them as part of the process - prime candidate for inclusion is the rest of the central nervous system, closely followed by the rest of the body. (Side note: Oliver Sacks writes an excellent account of his first-hand experience of the somato-psychic in "A Leg to Stand On".)

I can quite equably accept that people choose to draw the boundaries of consciousness at the brain, at the body, or wider still - it all depends how one construes the phenomenon. But when you say "*I* tend to live behind my eyes", and I'm contemplating a reciprocal response, there's some slipperiness of terms there. I can consider myself largely coextensive with my consciousness only in the wider sense of consciousness. "I" am much, much more than the narrower definition...

I live
behind my eyes AND
in the pit of my belly AND
in the soles of my feet touching the bare earth and the palms of my hands against reverberating glass AND
in this house in Adelaide AND
in network servers distributed across the surface of the globe AND
in that great floating darkness from which every possibility arises.

And more besides... but I haven't got all day to sit here typing, you know ;-)