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>>16571531
I haven't lost, I was merely amusing myself while waiting for you to explain to me why we should take the existence of unconsciousness as anything more than a convenient but unproven hypothesis, when:

1) By default we cannot experience unconsciousness itself, for then it becomes a contradiction in terms, for then as an experience it is something we cognize, i.e. are conscious of, if you are conscious of 'unconsciousness' while it's occurring then it's not actually unconsciousness
2) It cannot be directly shown or measured in a living person's brain in the same way that no known neuroimaging or other scientific techniques are capable of detecting and measuring consciousness within the brain. With both unconsciousness and consciousness, the relationship between these and physical changes in the brain is something we can only theorize and make inferences about as a result of measuring physical objects and other changes in electricity etc which are non-identical to the thing which is supposed to be the causal product (i.e. consciousness) of the objects being measured, or its absence (unconsciousness).
3) If we can't experience unconsciousness ourselves, and if we cannot reliably measure and verify it scientifically, then the only way left to detect it is through memory. But our memory is not always reliable, sometimes when people drink lots of liquor, they go on violent rampages and then fail to have any memory of it the next day, despite that they were obviously conscious during the rampage.

Therefore, your objection here >>16570924, that "If your brain was just a transmitter, you would never be unconscious." which you made in response to the radiowave and radio-receiver analogy made here >>16569302, stands refuted and disproved as a fallacious argument, because of how the existence of unconsciousness is itself an unproven hypothesis as I have explained, and therefore it cannot be taken as something which we can safely assume, and from which we can draw deductions and apply them elsewhere. Thus, the appropriateness of the radiowave (I prefer light) analogy for consciousness stands untarnished.

QED