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by zhynn 950 days ago
There is a spectrum between conscious and unconscious. You could say that under general anesthesia you are a 0/10 on the conscious scale, asleep is 1 or 2, just woken from sleep is maybe 3.... and up to a well rested, well fed, healthy sober adult human near the top of the scale. These are common sense notions of objective consciousness and they are testable and noncontroversial outside of a philosophy argument.

Does this make sense as a rebuttal to your reductio argument?

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People dream under general anesthesia, which is a form of consciousness.

I don't think ie. Stephen Hawking was on "lower spectrum of consciousness" either.