Consciousness is simply to know or awareness of contact.
Is it simply the ability to rationalize, analyze and most important concentrate? With or without ego?
What you describe there seems like thinking and pondering. Through thoughts ego arises and always associated with and unwholesome root. Also see: Tanhā Jālinī Sutta
Does consciousness dictate who we are?
Yes and no. Concies does not on its own does nothing to dictate who we are. We are formed due to past conditioning. This is decided by whether we react to the feelings arising from contact with craving, aversion and ignorance. E.g. you touch a soft fabric and think I want this. This creates fabrications and becoming.
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