> The problem with this argument is that this is effectively happening every time you fall asleep or get knocked out I think that's quite a huge assertion to m

> The problem with this argument is that this is effectively happening every time you fall asleep or get knocked out I think that's quite a huge assertion to make, personally. > In a very real sense, you are dying every day I don't agree with this view, it would take some pretty hard science there to change my mind, to show that sleep and death are really equivalent, and I don't think we have that given the definition of consciousness is a little fuzzy in the first place. This seems to be more a philosophical conjecture than any sort of hard fact.