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minus-squareObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI get the argument, but you can’t even necessarily prove the original person was conscious, how would you demonstrate this?
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWe can’t even prove that when we go to sleep and wake up the next day that it’s the same entity going about our day instead of a new one that inherited all of the memories and everything else encoded in the brain.
minus-squareObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoCorrect, and yet as far as I am aware, I keep existing consciously. I wouldn’t mind that hypothesis being correct some days lol
I get the argument, but you can’t even necessarily prove the original person was conscious, how would you demonstrate this?
We can’t even prove that when we go to sleep and wake up the next day that it’s the same entity going about our day instead of a new one that inherited all of the memories and everything else encoded in the brain.
Correct, and yet as far as I am aware, I keep existing consciously. I wouldn’t mind that hypothesis being correct some days lol