I’m asking to taboo “consciousness” because I’ve seen many times that different people mean different things when they use that word.
I don’t believe that they actually mean different things. Consciousness, like fire, is something we all know about. It sounds more like you’re pushing people to give more detail than they know, so they make up random answers. I can push you about “fire” the same way, it will just take a couple more steps to get to qualia. Fire is that orange thing—sorry, what’s “orange”? :-) The exercise isn’t helpful.
I don’t believe that they actually mean different things. Consciousness, like fire, is something we all know about. It sounds more like you’re pushing people to give more detail than they know, so they make up random answers. I can push you about “fire” the same way, it will just take a couple more steps to get to qualia. Fire is that orange thing—sorry, what’s “orange”? :-) The exercise isn’t helpful.