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This doesn't make sense to me. I have nothing to compare this experience of consciousness to. I know, logically speaking, that I am often unconscious (e.g. when sleeping), but there is no way -- by definition -- I can experience what that unconsciousness feels like. Thus, I cannot compare my experience of being conscious with the experience of being unconscious.
Am I missing something ? I think there are drugs that can induce the experience of unconsciousness, but I'd rather not take any kind of drugs unless it's totally necessary...
Then it might be that you don't have access to the sensation Richard is talking about.
I can distinguish states where I'm totally immersed in a video game and the video game world from states when I'm aware of myself and conscious of myself.
If I wanted to go more into detail I can distinguish roughly four different sensations for which I have labels under the banner of "I experience a certain sense of my own presence". There a fifth sensation that I used to mislabel as presence.
Ok, so who, exactly, is it that is "totally immersed in a video game" ? If it's still you, then you have simply lost awareness of (the majority of) your body, but you are as conscious as you were before.