Multiple meanings of consciousness all point towards that which is ever-present and underlies or enframes what appears, and which possesses a nature which all that appears is unknowingly striving to express, to bring to self-transparency. You might see the same movement in the striving of painting to cause the act of seeing to emerge from out of the seen, or the move that goes from a consideration of acts and characters to psychology or spirit. Isn't this just the defining gesture of metaphysics and isn't it then subject to the same move being repeated at one further remove?