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A single cell in your brain could die randomly. No matter which cell it was, you would still experience the same level of consciousness, as the brain will find pathways around the dead neuron.
Therefore we can assume that it is not contained in a single cell or a single neuron-neuron connection.

Now kill the whole brain, or reduce it to a vegitative state, your consciousness would clearly dissapear completely.
Consciousness is therefore a process, it emerges from the flow of information in the brain.

You could say that something like an internet community (e.g. 4chan), which is essentially a conduit for information between conscious entities, has a consciousness to some extent (a hivemind).
The only reason you don't feel it that way is because the exchange of ideas on the internet has a considerable latency.