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Especially when you consider sleeping. Do we die every night, with a copy continuing on tomorrow?
by bratbag 4y ago
Especially when you consider sleeping.
Do we die every night, with a copy continuing on tomorrow?
- NateEag 4y agoI think dreams are evidence that consciousness has continuity across sleep.
- naasking 4y agoYou're not dreaming all of the time, so that doesn't work. Dreams only occur during REM sleep phases, which tend to cluster closer to the end of the sleep cycle.
- NateEag 4y agoI wasn't trying to argue for constant consciousness, just saying that if we can be aware of and remember some things that happen during REM sleep, that suggests that perhaps there's more continuity there than was being suggested above.
- jobigoud 4y agoConsider the case of drinking or drugs to the point of waking up not remembering what happened the night before. And then consider people who, knowing very well that they are going to be in a state of mind where they will do things that they will not remember the next day, still choose to do it. To me this is even crazier than mind uploading. They are lending their body to someone with which they don't have stream continuity.
- NateEag 4y agoThat's a relevant point. I'm right there with you on getting blackout drunk. I've never had any interest in mind-altering substances.
- ncmncm 4y agoIt is a commonplace in surgery rooms that anesthetic is administered, and after it dissipates the patient continues speaking exactly where they left off, not noticing any gap. That has to mean something about the physics and chemistry of consciousness as manifested in our meat brains.
- NateEag 4y agoWow, that's interesting. I had not heard of that before. Thanks for sharing.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoAfter a bunch of struggling with the knowledge that my consciousness will one day cease I've recently come upon this thought myself and I find it strangely reassuring.
- ncmncm 4y agoI was out walking with a friend in San Francisco, and ran into one of his old friends he hadn't seen in three years. This guy said he had been abducted by aliens a thousand times, since. I only realized later that meant every time he slept. After you have been Probed, how can you assume the you they let go was the original?