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I think dreams are evidence that consciousness has continuity across sleep.
by NateEag 4y ago
I 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.