[during sleep] Your consciousness persists, it just doesn’t remember.
Huh. Does something in your subjective experience make you think that your consciousness continues while you sleep? Aside from a few dreams, sleep to me is a big black hole in which I might as well be dead. I mean, I have nothing in my subjective experience to contradicts the hypothesis that my brain does nothing at night, and what I interpret as memories of dreams are really errors in my long-term memories that manifest in the seconds I wake-up. (I don’t actually think dreams are formed this way, but there is nothing in the way I experience consciousness that tells me so).
What do you expect to experience after being shot in the head? Do you expect to wake up in the future?
Since when growing up I didn’t take the transporter to school every morning, I would be scared of not waking up. After a few hundred round trips to and from stone tablets, not so much. Of course, it’s possible that I should be afraid of becoming a stone tablet, just as it is possible that I should be afraid of going to sleep now.
Arguments around the question “is teleportation different from sleep?” seem to me to like they center around questions of science and logic, not differences in subjective experiences of consciousness. That is, unless your experience of conciseness while sleeping differs significantly from mine.
Have you ever woken up in the process of falling asleep, or suddenly jolted awake in an adrenaline releasing situation? What was your memory of that experience?
It varies. Certainly if I’m just falling asleep, or groggy and waking up, I sometimes get the sense that I was there but not thinking the same way I do when I’m awake.
But that doesn’t mean that I’m somewhat conscious all the time. I have sat in class paying close attention to the professor, then felt my friend’s hand on my shoulder in an otherwise empty classroom. I didn’t notice myself falling asleep or waking up—time just seemed to stop.
Huh. Does something in your subjective experience make you think that your consciousness continues while you sleep? Aside from a few dreams, sleep to me is a big black hole in which I might as well be dead. I mean, I have nothing in my subjective experience to contradicts the hypothesis that my brain does nothing at night, and what I interpret as memories of dreams are really errors in my long-term memories that manifest in the seconds I wake-up. (I don’t actually think dreams are formed this way, but there is nothing in the way I experience consciousness that tells me so).
Since when growing up I didn’t take the transporter to school every morning, I would be scared of not waking up. After a few hundred round trips to and from stone tablets, not so much. Of course, it’s possible that I should be afraid of becoming a stone tablet, just as it is possible that I should be afraid of going to sleep now.
Arguments around the question “is teleportation different from sleep?” seem to me to like they center around questions of science and logic, not differences in subjective experiences of consciousness. That is, unless your experience of conciseness while sleeping differs significantly from mine.
Have you ever woken up in the process of falling asleep, or suddenly jolted awake in an adrenaline releasing situation? What was your memory of that experience?
It varies. Certainly if I’m just falling asleep, or groggy and waking up, I sometimes get the sense that I was there but not thinking the same way I do when I’m awake.
But that doesn’t mean that I’m somewhat conscious all the time. I have sat in class paying close attention to the professor, then felt my friend’s hand on my shoulder in an otherwise empty classroom. I didn’t notice myself falling asleep or waking up—time just seemed to stop.