But what I can definitely say is that both of those people are experiencing consciousness discretely.

Well, no, you are not a unique collection of cells except at any given instant of time; the cells are continually dying and being replaced, and of those that stay alive the material out of which they are composed changes due to metabolism. An instant is insufficient to imply continuity of anything, and the whole…

I’m not playing to save the opponent. I’m playing to win the audience.

This response indicates you understand precisely none of what you are speaking about. It also calls into question whether you are capable of reading for basic comprehension.

You don’t know that they are seeking asylum or if they are just coming here as illegal economic immigrants. You don’t know if the children in question are related to the adults they crossed with. You don’t know if the children you see in pictures were actually separated from parents or unaccompanied minors (which make…

Second scene together. Their first scene was in season one, where Bernard finds he cannot deactivate Maeve after she has her post-traumatic freakout after her encounter with MiB, and so Ford uses the Debussy recording to calm her.

What makes you you?

There is nothing quite so pathetic as a fanatic in the throes of denial, abetted by ignorance and guaranteed by arrogance.

The US law includes the US Constitution.

And perceiving internal drives and desires as continuous from day to day are a function of memory. If your memory reset every day, you’d have no sense of continuity even if all your drives remained identical from one day to the next. The problem with loss-of-consciousness is precisely the loss of memory formation that…

IIRC, they’re going right for Consider Phlebas, which, though it is technically the first Culture book, is a really odd place to start.

And several of those modes lack a conscious component entirely. If you wish to quibble about NREM sleep, you can easily take more extreme examples squarely within common experience where there is no question as to a discontinuity of consciousness; lengthy coma, alcohol blackout, anaesthesia, dissociative…

Dreams are only a portion of the sleep experience, and for large parts of NREM sleep there is no conscious awareness whatsoever.

In order for a thing to matter it has to matter to someone. Unless clones of still-living-people are being produced, the existential and pragmatic concerns are identical, since if the original is dead nothing matters to the original, and the copy is identical to the original and knows no difference.

As I said, the issue itself is complicated, a philosophical conundrum; I’m not saying the mind-body problem, p-zombies, qualia, etc. are not difficult pieces of the cognition puzzle. But its pragmatic consequences overall are minor, if not entirely trivial. From the point of view of a copy, it is the original, and…

Continuity of consciousness is an illusion; the conscious you of yesterday dies in the night, and a new instance of conscious awareness is booted into memory when you wake up each morning.

Underworld is a much improved movie by this watching method, as well.

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