Now when I say “you are conscious,” I am talking about the similarity between the times when you are awake and the times when you are dreaming, in contrast with the times when you are asleep and not dreaming.
You don’t have a separate word which means “Jiro’s consciousness” and nothing else. You have a single word which is used both for mine and yours, which implies that they are the similar. What you’ve just described fails to imply that similarity, so it doesn’t match the way you are using the word.
I deliberately failed to imply the similarity, since I said that we would define consciousness in that way even if I were not conscious.
However, you are quite right that I would not actually know about consciousness if I were not. And indeed, I notice the similarity between being awake and dreaming sleep, as opposed to dreamless sleep, in the same way that you do. So I quite rightly talk about consciousness being the same in you and in me.
You don’t have a separate word which means “Jiro’s consciousness” and nothing else. You have a single word which is used both for mine and yours, which implies that they are the similar. What you’ve just described fails to imply that similarity, so it doesn’t match the way you are using the word.
I deliberately failed to imply the similarity, since I said that we would define consciousness in that way even if I were not conscious.
However, you are quite right that I would not actually know about consciousness if I were not. And indeed, I notice the similarity between being awake and dreaming sleep, as opposed to dreamless sleep, in the same way that you do. So I quite rightly talk about consciousness being the same in you and in me.