Researching for My Book: Give Me An Educated Opinion On This

Hi guys, bare with me I’m not a neuroscience major or anything like that. I’m a writer and I’m currently researching for my book.

Let me know your educated opinion on how valuable consciousness is in terms of that people for example can exploit it. Consciousness itself separate to its other physical body.

What can it be used by itself?

Is it like a computer where you can have one consciousness run its own tasks when you connect it to some sort of system connecting to other systems like a real computer?

Hope these questions make sense.

I’m trying to get to the potential of how people can exploit consciousness itself and how it can be enslaved in some way. Kinda like that episode in Black Mirror where the engineer created a copy of him so he can build more and more into the video game he created. Or is that just pure fiction?