do you know consciousness? Language can be a confuser here so feel free to switch consciousness with knowing or awareness. I just ask because many of the texts I read speak early on the path to realization that knowing the Self means knowing what the Self is NOT.
so i know I am not my name. my body, my memories etc...

Essentially they seem to say if can know a 'thing' then you are not that thing. Recently I wondered if I was consciousness since it seems to be the one thing I do not know.

The 2 basic truths that we can all accept seem to be:
truth of being:   I am
truth of knowing: I know I am
So some may say 'I know I am conscious' or 'I know I am in a state of consciousness'. But I am not sure if statements like that are simply another statement of the basic truth of being. 
Or I suppose another might say "I know that I know" or "I am aware that I am aware" but to me this seems like semantics and at the base level is simply saying "I know" or "I am aware"......not the actual EXPERIENCE of "knowing of knowing/conscsiousness/awareness". So I wonder if I could be my consiousness?

Are being and knowing of being inextricably bound together and dependent OR is it possible, in a non-referential void reality for example, to be and not know being? I will post that as a separate question if I must.
'Being' ('selfing') and knowing ('consciousness') are not inextricably bound together. 

In Buddhism, consciousness is delineated into six types, such can be summarised as: 

(i) seeing; 

(ii) hearing; 

(iii) smelling; 

(iv) tasting; 

(v) touching; &amp; 

(vi) mental cognition (knowing the mind's thoughts, feeling, moods, etc). 

Imagine a mosquito suddenly bites. First, there is consciousness of the touch sensation then, a moment later, the mind thinks: "A mosquito has bitten me". 

The touch consciousness arises 1st, by surprise, without any willfulness. Later the mind creates the idea of "me" or "I". 

Therefore, 'knowing' &amp; 'selfing' are not inextricably bound together because knowing occurs before &amp; independent of the thought of "me" or "I".

This is why consciousness experiences many things the 'self' does not want to experience. If 'self' &amp; 'consciousness' were bound together, the self could decide where to direct consciousness and thus avoid ugly sights, unpleasant sounds, bad smells, etc.  

This is why you define or identify yourself as nothing apart from what the mind is consciousness of. 

You were not born with pre-existing ideas of "my mother", "my father", "my house", "my body", etc. Instead, what happened is the mind first sees, hears, smells, tastes or touches its mother and eventually, later, the idea is formed: "my mother". Similarly, one first day, a small child looks into a mirror and develops for the first time, the idea of "me" or "my body". 

In MN 64, the Buddha taught a new born child has no idea of 'self', 'me' or 'I'. 

In SN 12.12, the Buddha described 'becoming', 'being' or 'selfing' only happens after consciousness, feeling, craving &amp; attachment have occurred.