Dear Jeff Baugher,
Thank you for your interest on this article.
Consciousness of a system is the sense of awareness of its own.
In this context, we may assume that cosmic consciousness is similar to biological consciousness, as the system itself is the universe.
When we define the unit of consciousness, it is the function of information flux for the static information in unit volume.
In accordance with thermodynamics, energy flux is the information flux and entropy is the static information, in that entropy is relativistic in a segmental universe.
As entropy state function in a locality is related with chemical potential and the entropic gravity of that locality, the combination of chemical potential with gravitational potential is defined as the cosmic potential of that location.
Abundance of this cosmic potential in organic materials of the biological system is indicative of the specific biological evolution in locality, by a homeomorphic segmental-fluctuation of the universe.
As consciousness is expressional as a function of, 'information', the anthropic principle that describes the physical universe in compatible with 'conscious life' of the biological systems, may have some similarities with the description of biological consciousness within the scenario of, 'cosmic consciousness', by this paradigm of universe.
With best regards,
Jayakar