That's an interesting point. One way to approach it would be to say that it is an unconscious state because of the very fact that one cannot recall it. But this

That's an interesting point. One way to approach it would be to say that it is an unconscious state because of the very fact that one cannot recall it. But this is surely not necessarily correct (works given certain assumptions about the nature of consciousness), so I'm not sure. It still seems to be a somewhat orthogonal question to me, though. :)