If computational continuity is what matters, then no. Just because you have no memory doesn’t mean you didn’t experience it. There is in fact a continuous experience throughout all of the examples you gave, just no new memories being formed. But from the last point you remember (going to sleep, fainting, hitting your head) to when you wake up, you did exist and were running a computational process. From our understanding of neurology you can be certain that there was no interruption of subjective experience of identity, even if you can’t remember what actually happened.
Whether this is also true of general anesthesia depends very much on the biochemistry going on. I admit ignorance here.
OK, I guess I should give up, too. I am utterly unable to relate to whatever it is you mean by “because you have no memory doesn’t mean you didn’t experience it” or “subjective experience of identity, even if you can’t remember what actually happened”.
If computational continuity is what matters, then no. Just because you have no memory doesn’t mean you didn’t experience it. There is in fact a continuous experience throughout all of the examples you gave, just no new memories being formed. But from the last point you remember (going to sleep, fainting, hitting your head) to when you wake up, you did exist and were running a computational process. From our understanding of neurology you can be certain that there was no interruption of subjective experience of identity, even if you can’t remember what actually happened.
Whether this is also true of general anesthesia depends very much on the biochemistry going on. I admit ignorance here.
OK, I guess I should give up, too. I am utterly unable to relate to whatever it is you mean by “because you have no memory doesn’t mean you didn’t experience it” or “subjective experience of identity, even if you can’t remember what actually happened”.