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This is a great question. I was put under for a surgery at one point. I was effectively "dead" from my perspective during the duration of the surgery in that no
by ericb 15y ago
This is a great question. I was put under for a surgery at one point. I was effectively "dead" from my perspective during the duration of the surgery in that no time seemed to have passed between when I was put under and when I came t. My consciousness was "off" in a way that is not when merely sleeping. It seems like this is a parallel for unplugging an AI, but then you have the problem of the AI losing whatever is in RAM.
The non-humanness of an AI might slow the realization that creating an AI should probably embody the same responsibilities as having a child.
- eschulte 15y agoTechnically, when you're in deep (non-REM) sleep your conscious is also turned off.
- spot 15y agoyes but during deep sleep you still sense the passage of time. when you wake up after general anesthesia, it's like changing channels. very weird.
- jacques_chester 15y agoMy most refreshing sleep feels as though I have skipped forward from night to morning without the tedious period of time in-between.
- alnayyir 15y agoI don't, when I sleep I die. (Usually)
- hasenj 15y agoThere were times in my life when I woke up (from normal sleep) thinking I didn't sleep at all, while in fact I slept for hours and hours.