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I think tying physical change to consciousness is dangerous because that would make things that do not change unconscious or things that stay in a permanent state to lose their consciousness. Indeed we know that atoms are always moving but if we stopped that process would consciousness cease? If I freeze you so you move very slowly does that end the consciousness of your being until things speed up again? How does this work within the mind and soul? How could we stop them and end their consciousness? I don't think you can comprehend consciousness without thinking of it as continuous.
That commits you to the position that all instances of human unconsciousness are just failure to form memories and do a bunch of other things (like interact with the environment), but the lights are never off, as it were.
Yes, and people live their whole lives this way, a state of unconscious where they don't do all kinds fo things. There were instances of people being in freeze or not remembering very traumatic events. There are people that have terrible things happen to them and have no memory of it until something triggers. That's why we use EMDR to help those people.