hybrid consciousness

“We have to keep reminding ourselves that any type of qualitative subjectivity is a form of consciousness.  The possession of such states is necessary and sufficient for being conscious. Consciousness comes in degrees, and these range all the was from fanatic intensity to just barely being awake.  But all of these are degrees within consciousness [italics in original]. There is no such thing as a “hybrid” form of consciousness.  (Searle, 2011, 52)

The image is from an article on consciousness in Scientific American.