But you can't provide a justification for that, you're just relying on intuition rather than logic. |
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But you can't provide a justification for that, you're just relying on intuition rather than logic. |
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- Are you an idiot?
- No sir, I'm a dreamer.
We could destroy the person and make a copy with the same matter. An argument could then be made that in that case the person would have the "same" consciousness, but what's the explanation behind that? Where did that unique consciousness go between the time the person was the destroyed and time he/she was re-created? |
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- Are you an idiot?
- No sir, I'm a dreamer.
Nowhere. It ceased to exist. But when the person was being rebuild, it popped into existence again. Isn't it true that consciousness ceases to exist for a while when someone is KO'ed? To him it seems like he didn't miss a single second. Can't those two situations be equal? |
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Yes, it would also be equivalent to going to sleep. But that kind of thing doesn't make sense from the point of view that there's such a thing as "a" consciousness: |
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- Are you an idiot?
- No sir, I'm a dreamer.
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I did not say they wouldn't be conscious. I meant that most likely consciousness is an universal property and there's no such thing as "a" consciousness. |
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- Are you an idiot?
- No sir, I'm a dreamer.
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