4 ms·
From a purely empirical standpoint our minds go nowhere. Your whole life is nothing but an unbroken stream of consciousness, you never slept a day in your life.
by EmilyHughes 4y ago
From a purely empirical standpoint our minds go nowhere. Your whole life is nothing but an unbroken stream of consciousness, you never slept a day in your life. Just because you can wake up, point at a clock and create a story that so-and-so many hours have passed doesn't mean anything.
There might be more time passing for the people who are "awake" during this time, but this is not a problem for the universal mind. It simply squeezes the missing time in there and synchronizes individual minds together again later.
Also interesting: The thought "I was under anaesthesia for 12 hours" is itself an object that appears in consciousness.
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoThis theory requires you to distrust a lot of people who saw you sleeping for a long time. It also requires ignoring a lot of common sense knowledge. For example, the chicken you left marinating overnight for your breakfast became quite tasty, why is that so if no time has passed? Why does your body become lighter overnight? The inconsistencies just keep piling on if you want to believe time doesn't pass when you're sleeping.
- EmilyHughes 4y agoI am not denying that the chicken became tasty over night. Time in a practical sense has "passed" but what really happened empirically was just a stream of perceptions, one of these perceptions is the story that hours have passed while you were sleeping. There is a subtle distinction, but I get it, its not easy to grok. I struggle with this myself, it's more of an intuition at this point. Imagine to let go of all stories your mind comes up with to make sense of sleep and time, what is left? In that state there is simply no sleep happening, only perception and movement.