Then you just need to define what the terms mean. In the rest of the conversation, let "consciousness" mean "the subjective conscious experience (your qualitati

Then you just need to define what the terms mean. In the rest of the conversation, let "consciousness" mean "the subjective conscious experience (your qualitative experience of sight, sound, etc)", rather than "awareness", "medical wakefulness", or anything. Then you can talk about this concept instead of getting bogged down in definitions.