It is not as though consciousness was intuitively grasped in its essence and your understanding of nature or being needed to be constrained to ensure its place. The shape of consciousness and even the delimitation of such is formed by the language and concepts used to get about in a world of persons at a certain historical time. What there is about reality is what prompts such theorising, neither matter, mind or force, but a prior reflexive singularity that gives rise to a practical metaphysics, to any number of such paradigms demanding to be followed through to their source.