So what do you define as sleep if sleep isn't a state where one is not conscious ?

random imagery going through your mind. The brain is unloading in order to be able to store new info.

You're also setting up a difference between living things and dead things but you don't want to call that difference consciousness.

Why should I? You are in need for calling it even though you really have no idea what it means. There is no universal definition of consciousness you know. So, when you stumble upon these kind of "vague" words instead of adopting them try to question their origin and nature.

You've not changed anything you've just lost a word to describe a difference. You're just playing a self defeating language game

Not really. I told you. You just don't want to accept it. All life has electrical signal stimulation going on in its physiology. A rock doesn't. You want a word for that? Sorry. definitions speak louder than abstract words.

We say water is wet to describe the contrasting experience to what we call dry. Are you saying that water isn't wet? That there's no such thing as wetness and dryness?

I was being ironic to you previous statement.

"Conscious" and "unconscious "describe contrast. You get rid of the word and you still have the contrast you just don't have a word for it now.

electrically stimulated vs not electrically stimulated