That depends on what you mean by "individual consciousness." Unitarity seems to be one of the inherent characteristics of human consciousness, which is the only unambiguous example of consciousness that we have. Humans can only consciously attend to one thing at a time. We don't know whether this is a necessary feature of consciousness or merely a human limitation (because we only have one data point), but my money is on the former.

This is not to say that consciousness could not exist in a physically distributed system like an ant colony, but the colony would still perceive itself as "an individual" (whatever that could possibly mean in that case).

Consciousness as commonly defined is kind of a low bar, companies for example could be said to be conscious and meet most definitions that doin't boil down to is Human. But, frankly we already have a word for 'Human' so defining such things in purely human terms seems pointless.

I will happily accept the idea that companies are life forms, but conscious? I dunno. What is the evidence?