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    It is not the case that Consciousness persists during deep sleep even in the absence of intentional experience.

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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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    • 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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