A coma where you’re semiconscious maybe. You can’t get a successor observer-moment to the current one without the “observer”. And have you considered more exotic possibilities like Boltzmann brains?
But you still experience things when you sleep, hence are observing. Also, quantum insomnia should exist if you’re correct, but it doesn’t.
I don’t see how a Boltzmann brain spontaneously forming could ever be more likely than existing in a universe with all the infrastructure necessary to support a natural brain—even if that infrastructure beats some amazing odds, it only has to maintain itself. The theory further requires that mind unification be true.
As I said elsewhere observer moments need not be contiguous. And I agree that you could count as an observer if you’re dreaming (“semiconsciouse maybe”), but not if you’re anesthetized or similarly unconscious. This is probably the case in deep sleep and likely in comatose states.
I’ve been anesthetized twice. I don’t remember any dreams whatsoever, but I had the distant feeling that I did dream upon waking (though they may have happened as the drug was loosening its hold).
A coma where you’re semiconscious maybe. You can’t get a successor observer-moment to the current one without the “observer”. And have you considered more exotic possibilities like Boltzmann brains?
But you still experience things when you sleep, hence are observing. Also, quantum insomnia should exist if you’re correct, but it doesn’t.
I don’t see how a Boltzmann brain spontaneously forming could ever be more likely than existing in a universe with all the infrastructure necessary to support a natural brain—even if that infrastructure beats some amazing odds, it only has to maintain itself. The theory further requires that mind unification be true.
As I said elsewhere observer moments need not be contiguous. And I agree that you could count as an observer if you’re dreaming (“semiconsciouse maybe”), but not if you’re anesthetized or similarly unconscious. This is probably the case in deep sleep and likely in comatose states.
I’ve been anesthetized twice. I don’t remember any dreams whatsoever, but I had the distant feeling that I did dream upon waking (though they may have happened as the drug was loosening its hold).