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Then think about cryogenics. The wood frog can be frozen solid and come back to life by thawing, so there’s nothing fundamentally preventing our existence from becoming discontinuous
Sometimes dreaming and sometimes recalling doesn’t prove you always have a stream of consciousness.
You have different sleep phases each night, some are entirely dream less. Large groups of your neurons sync up during NREM sleep, firing at the same time. I don’t see how consciousness can survive becoming basically a pendulum. People awoken during NREM in studies usually say they weren’t experiencing anything. Maybe they were and just didn’t remember, we can’t prove that, but it seems unlikely and it couldn’t be much of an experience while most of your brain is busy flashing on and off again like a flickering lightbulb.
This doesn’t mean much. You only dream during REM sleep, one phase of your sleep cycle. But there are periods during every night where the lights are off and there’s nobody home.
No it isn’t. You’re only dreaming during REM sleep. This is like, sleep cycle 101 here. The periods of deep sleep where your brain is doing its deep repair work? Your consciousness is not just reduced, but absent entirely. During slow-wave sleep, you have no awareness. The reason you haven’t noticed these while you are sleeping is because you cannot be aware of your own periods where you completely lack awareness.
Not entirely true. I’ve had dreams while asleep or heard things that really happened only to recall th em later when I awoke.
Sleep might represent a reduction in consciousness, but I’m still a stream do consciousness.
Then think about cryogenics. The wood frog can be frozen solid and come back to life by thawing, so there’s nothing fundamentally preventing our existence from becoming discontinuous
Sometimes dreaming and sometimes recalling doesn’t prove you always have a stream of consciousness. You have different sleep phases each night, some are entirely dream less. Large groups of your neurons sync up during NREM sleep, firing at the same time. I don’t see how consciousness can survive becoming basically a pendulum. People awoken during NREM in studies usually say they weren’t experiencing anything. Maybe they were and just didn’t remember, we can’t prove that, but it seems unlikely and it couldn’t be much of an experience while most of your brain is busy flashing on and off again like a flickering lightbulb.
This doesn’t mean much. You only dream during REM sleep, one phase of your sleep cycle. But there are periods during every night where the lights are off and there’s nobody home.
When your brain is always active during sleep.
No it isn’t. You’re only dreaming during REM sleep. This is like, sleep cycle 101 here. The periods of deep sleep where your brain is doing its deep repair work? Your consciousness is not just reduced, but absent entirely. During slow-wave sleep, you have no awareness. The reason you haven’t noticed these while you are sleeping is because you cannot be aware of your own periods where you completely lack awareness.