Abram,
>
> My answer would have to be, no, she lacks the necessary counterfactual
> behaviors during that time.
? The film of the graph lacks also the counterfactuals.
> And, moreover, if only part of the brain
> were being run by a recording
... which lacks the counterfactual, ...
> then she would lack only some
> counterfactuals,
I don't understand. The recording lacks all the counterfactuals. You
can recover them from inert material, true, but this is true for the
empty graph too (both in dream and awake situations).
> and so she would count as partially conscious.
Hmmm .... Can she be conscious that she is partially conscious? I mean
is it like after we drink alcohol or something?
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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