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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday January 08 2020, @01:43PM (4 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday January 08 2020, @01:43PM (#941032)

    Meh. I lose continuity whenever I fall asleep. I'm still me, as far as a me exists. No biggie (until you start having multiple me around, at least).

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday January 08 2020, @05:39PM (3 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Wednesday January 08 2020, @05:39PM (#941125) Journal

    Meh. I lose continuity whenever I fall asleep. I'm still me, as far as a me exists.

    It's not a loss of continuity. You're gone.

    --
    Life without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.

    • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday January 09 2020, @01:27AM (2 children)

      by coolgopher (1157) on Thursday January 09 2020, @01:27AM (#941275)

      Well, true. But the me now lacks continuity past waking up (or possibly REM, if that's what I was doing just before waking up).

      The point is though, you can't get too attached to yourself, because you don't get to keep it :)

      • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday January 09 2020, @06:52PM (1 child)

        by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday January 09 2020, @06:52PM (#941544) Journal

        Yes, your consciousness loses continuity, but that doesn't mean your subconscious does. Dreams, intuitive leaps, even just waking intervals and non-deep sleep... I suspect that limiting the view of continuity overall to consciousness may be glossing over your "who-ness" and "I-ness."

        Anesthesia is another area where it is interesting to consider these issues.

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        You come from dust. You return to dust. That's
        why I don't dust. Might have been a friend.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 13 2020, @05:39AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 13 2020, @05:39AM (#942653)

          Yeah just because you can't remember your dreams doesn't mean you didn't dream or weren't "kinda conscious" during them.

          After all lots of drunk people have done lots of stuff that they can't remember the next day but they weren't really "unconscious".

          Even if a computer's storage has been experiencing "write failure" or "indexing/read failure" (or "read only mode for fsck" ;) ) doesn't mean the CPU and RAM wasn't working during that time.

          See also: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/01/02/1341207&markunread=1 [soylentnews.org]