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Consciousness is often said to disappear in deep, dreamless sleep. We argue that this assumption is oversimplified. Unless dreamless sleep is defined as unconscious from the outset there are good empirical and theoretical reasons for saying that a range of different types of sleep experience, some of which are distinct from dreaming, can occur in all stages of sleep.

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  • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    it’s the irreversible stop of some activity.

    This threshold has changed over time. So I don’t think it’s a good definition of it hasn’t always been the same point.

    And the rest of your comment is just philosophy. You’re neither wrong nor right. Definition of self is not a concept there’s really any consensus over.