Theories of Consciousness. Subjective and Qualitative

 Ok so I came across Theories of Consciousness when I was researching Via Negativa, I thought it was quite relevant when looking at our semiotics (signs and signifiers)

"When I have a conscious experience of the blue sky, there is something it is like for me to have the experience. In particular, there is a bluish way it is like for me to have it. This "blush way it is like for me" constitutes the phenomenal character of my experience. Phenomenal character is the property that makes a phenomenally conscious state at all.
The  bluish way its like for me has two distinguishable components: (i) the bluish component and (ii) the for-me component. I call the former qualitative character and the latter subjective character. To a first approximation, phenomenal character is just the compresence of qualitative character and subjective character. To a second approximation, there is a more specific division of conceptual labor between qualitative and subjective character: a phenomenally conscious state's qualitative character is what makes the phenomenally conscious state it is, while its subjective character is what makes it a phenomenally conscious state at all. Thus, my conscious experience of the blue sky is the conscious experience it is in virtue of it's bluishness, but it is a conscious experience at all in virtue of its for-me-ness." (Kriegel, U, Subjective Consciousness: A self-representational theory)

It is very round-a-bout, but I think the bold sections are the areas that describe and explain the theory best. Read it through a few times because it is very repeatative and confusing.

Basically saying that in order to have a conscious experience is its divided to two sub-categories, for example of we change the for-me-ness or qualitative character to subconscious and the bluish component or subjective character to literal or the observed-by-the eye component. It is a little easier to decipher.

I can explain tomorrow if you still don't understand. Just some more research to add for our theory of observations.