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Qualitative richness
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Conscious experience is qualified by distinct sensory modalities and submodalities
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Conscious contents (if any) might be limited in both sensory modalities and submodalities. They can be evaluated based on brain damage and residual behaviours (e.g. sniffing for smelling)
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Situatedness
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Conscious experience is specified by the subject´s spatiotemporal condition
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Spatiotemporal framing, as well as bodily experience, might be changeable and discontinuous/fragmented
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Intentionality
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Consciousness is about something other than its neuronal underpinnings
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Possible residual consciousness might be still intentional but less egocentric and more allocentric. Arguably decoding from the visual cortical system may indicate what residual visual experience is about
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Integration
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The components of the conscious experience are perceived as a unified whole
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The elements of a scene might be perceived independently or at different levels of detail
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Dynamics and stability
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Conscious experiences include both dynamic changes and short-term stabilization
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Being the anticorrelation between DMN and DAT compromised, residual conscious processing might be very unstable without any capacity for stabilization. Also the updating (dynamics) of conscious experience can be compromised
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