I am confused about the purpose of the “awareness and memory” section, and maybe disagree with the intuition said to be obvious in the second subsection. Is there some deeper reason you want to bring up how we self-model memory / something you wanted to talk about there that I missed?
I could have cut §2.4. It’s not particularly important for later posts in the series. I thought about it. But it was pretty short, and I judged that it might be marginally useful all things considered.
Even if you lack the §2.4.2 intuition linking amnesia to I-must-have-been-unconscious, other people certainly have that intuition, e.g. Clive Wearing “constantly believes that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state”. I thought it was worth saying why someone might find that to be intuitively appealing, even if they simultaneously have other countervailing intuitions.
I am confused about the purpose of the “awareness and memory” section, and maybe disagree with the intuition said to be obvious in the second subsection. Is there some deeper reason you want to bring up how we self-model memory / something you wanted to talk about there that I missed?
I could have cut §2.4. It’s not particularly important for later posts in the series. I thought about it. But it was pretty short, and I judged that it might be marginally useful all things considered.
Even if you lack the §2.4.2 intuition linking amnesia to I-must-have-been-unconscious, other people certainly have that intuition, e.g. Clive Wearing “constantly believes that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state”. I thought it was worth saying why someone might find that to be intuitively appealing, even if they simultaneously have other countervailing intuitions.