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    Consciousness persists during deep sleep even in the abse... — Carmelics
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    Consciousness persists during deep sleep even in the absence of intentional experience.

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    • 1.Consciousness is not intrinsically intentional.
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    • 2.The absence of intentional experience does not entail the absence of consciousness.
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    • 3.Consciousness can exist without any cognition representing an object.
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    • 1.Consciousness is constitutively intentional: every conscious state is necessarily directed toward some object (Brentano, Husserl).
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    • 2.A state with no intentional structure lacks the defining feature of consciousness and cannot be classified as conscious.
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    • 3.Post-sleep reports of 'blank' awareness are retrospective constructions, not evidence of awareness persisting through dreamless sleep.
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    • 1.The only legitimate evidence for consciousness during deep sleep would be first-person testimony from within that state, which is structurally unavailable.
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    • 2.Śaṅkara's inference from waking-state memory ('I slept well') to persisting witness-consciousness commits the fallacy of inferring a substrate from a subsequent report.
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    Consciousness persists in deep sleep where there is no intentional experience.

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    One might object that persistence of consciousness in deep sleep is not possible given the mainstream premise of identifying consciousness as intentional experience. Śaṅkara disagrees with the premise that consciousness is intrinsically intentional. (This was a matter of great debate between Advaita Vedānta and rival philosophies like Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika). He counters that the absence of intentional experience in deep sleep does not entail the lack of consciousness insofar as consciousness is not in
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