Or, in a nutshell, Buddhism says consciousness isn't continuous - it's pulse-width modulated[0]. There's many things in life that can be modeled this way, and

Or, in a nutshell, Buddhism says consciousness isn't continuous - it's pulse-width modulated[0]. There's many things in life that can be modeled this way, and I kind of forgot about this insight until your comment. I guess this is the flip side of the "refrigerator light error"[1] - sometime the thing isn't "on", it's flickering too fast to notice. (And the way you get that "unification" is like the way RGB LEDs are made: by putting three differently colored LED close to each other, PWM-ing them independently, relying on limited temporal and spatial resolution of human perception to make this looks like arbitrarily-colored point light.). -- [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation [1] - How's that even a thing? I don't even remember thinking this way as a kid, because the first fridge-light-related memory I have is of opening the fridge doors slowly and gently enough to see the point at which the light turns on, then locating the switch and pressing it with my fingers to confirm.