Upon reading it again (and with some input from a friend who is a logician - he said that this is something that he said I should have been able to understand myself - and upon going over it with him again, I discovered he was right), I get that there is this distinction now.

I don't think consciousness is necessarily a binary distinction for any part of the brain, or any thing for that matter. This does mean that it could be 0/1, but that it is likely that most things capable of exhibiting conscious behavior lie between the two degrees.