Consciousness is not something that you can classify as this. You can never say this consciousness. As the philosopher, orindam cacriverti put it, definition of object, an object is something that objects to my consciousness. Imagine consciousness as a field, and then there's something which comes within our consconscious experience, an object. So its object as if it is blocking, resisting your consciousness. Light sort of bounces op that object, and then you get the experience of seeing. The light illumines the ob what does the object do for the light? The object manifests the already existing light. And then you have experience. Iof thiser example sort of make sense.