I’m not sure I understand your second paragraph. Are you suggesting that if we come up with a new theory to explain some aspect of consciousness, we should use a word other than “consciousness” in that theory, to avoid potentially losing some of our intuitions about consciousness?
In this old comment, he does seem to suggest stopping there.
I’m not sure I understand your second paragraph. Are you suggesting that if we come up with a new theory to explain some aspect of consciousness, we should use a word other than “consciousness” in that theory, to avoid potentially losing some of our intuitions about consciousness?
Yes.