I mean, there’s plenty of yous that suddenly hear a hiss, see gas filling in the room, start desperately scratching at the sealed door, regretting their stupidity to be coaxed for some reason in this absurd experiment just for the sake of LW cred, grasp at their throat, and eventually slide to the floor spasming as the poison chokes the life out of them. Plenty of experience there! They just don’t get to tell the story.
(it’s interesting though that in a way things DO feel different if instead of poison the decaying atom triggers a nuclear bomb at point blank which obliterates you before any chances to perceive anything at all. But if that meant a real, physical difference that would imply some freaky things about consciousness and quantum mechanics)
I mean, there’s plenty of yous that suddenly hear a hiss, see gas filling in the room, start desperately scratching at the sealed door, regretting their stupidity to be coaxed for some reason in this absurd experiment just for the sake of LW cred, grasp at their throat, and eventually slide to the floor spasming as the poison chokes the life out of them. Plenty of experience there! They just don’t get to tell the story.
(it’s interesting though that in a way things DO feel different if instead of poison the decaying atom triggers a nuclear bomb at point blank which obliterates you before any chances to perceive anything at all. But if that meant a real, physical difference that would imply some freaky things about consciousness and quantum mechanics)