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> Every time you go to sleep your consciousness shuts down. What consciousness? Yes, I am aware that "sleep" means that a person becomes unconscious (trivially
by NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
> Every time you go to sleep your consciousness shuts down.
What consciousness? Yes, I am aware that "sleep" means that a person becomes unconscious (trivially demonstrated), but that is not the same thing as "consciousness shutting down". Supposing there is such a thing as consciousness, it doesn't seem to be anything that is suspended by the sleep process. And that's also a big "if", because consciousness is just woo-woo nonsense talked about but never defined by people who haven't quite gotten over the idea that humans don't have some immaterial soul.
- ben_w 2y agoConsciousness has, I'm told, 40 identifiable meanings. Makes it hard to get to grips with it. For example, I sometimes have direct awareness of the nature of my consciousness changing with tiredness. Sometimes that has been what I can only describe as if my homunculus has switched to autopilot and is now just watching a cinema of my senses. But that's probably a terrible description if you've never experienced that yourself.
- mrtranscendence 2y agoIf I'm not conscious, it's rather difficult to explain what I'm experiencing right now.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoYou're not really "experiencing" anything in the sense you mean. For a few thousand years, your species has communicated to others of its kind with a peculiar evolved language that causes a sort of narrative confusion.