Is intentionality as 'aboutness' a defining property of consciousness or merely something it can do? This amounts to whether it has to have an object, and in the same way there is the question of whether it has to have a subject, does t have to be 'somene's' consciousness? These are questions that refer to the immanence of consciousness, so if what the seek is to be so it must be known to be so. Consciousness is that to which belong the answers to all questions about itself. If the answer in 'no', then this corresponds to a distinct way of self-showing outside of ontological categories. The subject can never be an object no can it be distinct from all objects - since that too would be a kind of object, and in the same way it cannot be the questioning of itself.