"An example is Martin Pistorius, who has vivid memories of his time in his pseudocoma. That means his sense of self was intact throughout that experience."
Or they could just be false memories.
Or they could just be false memories.
How much detail do we really remember of our own last 6 years of fully awake, conscious existence not spent in such a state?
I feel like once you get to such a length of time you can't trust your own memory of it. Obviously he could know enough to say "I was conscious during some point of that time window" but measuring it would be hard.