Desire seems to be co-extensive with subjective consciousness. Even an ant when placed in a situation where it behaves in a way that expresses desire is i mediately seen as though it were aware of its situation and itself in that situation. And you, when desire is almost entirely absent, don't you barely seem to exist? This equivalence is present in the terms in which the atoms of consciousness are attempted to be expressed, intentionality, or prehension, or in the primacy of will in late-metaphysics. Qualia is a suspect term precisely because it strives to neutralise desire. Desire comes and goes as mysteriously as thought, but perhaps more in a more salient fashion. Furthermore, it is loops on itself as desire to desire etc., as easily as awareness, but has the advantage of possessing both a positive and a negative valency.