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I remember the first time I heard this theory, after thinking about it for a while, I found myself wondering; does this happen when we sleep? The principle hea

I remember the first time I heard this theory, after thinking about it for a while, I found myself wondering; does this happen when we sleep? The principle hear is about the recreation of body, but what if consciousness is a reconstruction at waking, like a boot process? If so, this is already happening to all of us, and we'd never know. Neither would Kirk.

whywhywhywhy 5y ago
> does this happen when we sleep? I did wonder this too for a bit but I think if you have experienced very bad sleeping patterns you start to realize that sleep is more of a transition than an off switch and what is happening around you can enter your dreams, you can remain conscious and in control from dream start to end with lucid dreaming and also what you dream can come into the real world in high fidelity for a few moments through hypnopompic hallucinations. From experiencing this it makes me feel sleep is more like you maintain your self you were the night before and the on off switch feeling is just because your brain chooses not to remember it.
mellavora 5y ago
Consciousness is reconstructed about once every 1.5 minutes. You just don't (normally) notice the short gaps, because during those gaps you are (by definition) unconscious. just like a movie (collection of still images) is seen as motion.
taneq 5y ago
All arguments about consciousness requiring continuity suffer from this basic flaw. Even if during normal sleep we still have continuity in some sense, there are other situations (general anaesthesia, concussion, those people who temporarily drown in freezing water) where it's hard to argue we have any kind of ongoing conscious function. It seems pretty clear to me that consciousness is an ongoing process arising from our brain function and that 'we' are recreated from thought to thought and experience to experience.

whywhywhywhy 5y ago

> does this happen when we sleep? I did wonder this too for a bit but I think if you have experienced very bad sleeping patterns you start to realize that sleep is more of a transition than an off switch and what is happening around you can enter your dreams, you can remain conscious and in control from dream start to end with lucid dreaming and also what you dream can come into the real world in high fidelity for a few moments through hypnopompic hallucinations. From experiencing this it makes me feel sleep is more like you maintain your self you were the night before and the on off switch feeling is just because your brain chooses not to remember it.

mellavora 5y ago

Consciousness is reconstructed about once every 1.5 minutes. You just don't (normally) notice the short gaps, because during those gaps you are (by definition) unconscious. just like a movie (collection of still images) is seen as motion.

taneq 5y ago

All arguments about consciousness requiring continuity suffer from this basic flaw. Even if during normal sleep we still have continuity in some sense, there are other situations (general anaesthesia, concussion, those people who temporarily drown in freezing water) where it's hard to argue we have any kind of ongoing conscious function. It seems pretty clear to me that consciousness is an ongoing process arising from our brain function and that 'we' are recreated from thought to thought and experience to experience.