Consciousness is intentionality, or else it is that there is a feeling of being (what it is). These are two polar views, from knowing say, and from feeing. Both are sensory, empirical, and depend on prior belief in certain fundamental distinction between a reality and its representative. None of this can apply to the grounding consciousness which creates and holds the distinction. Some kind of distinction is at play in the latter consciousness, but where in the one case the distinction is radically asymmetric in the other it is perfectly symmetric and so is not recognised as being of consciousness.