Yes, it’s a very similar idea with anesthesia. It uses the same regard for self as being something more than just a meat bag in motion. Anesthesia is understood as a reversible suppression of consciousness, memory, sensation, and awareness. If consciousness completely disappears, how do we know the subjective “you” that wakes up is identical to the one that went under?
Now that’s got me spooked out about how could I know if I’m even the same person moment-to-moment, or what if every blink of the eye or beat of the hard represents a granular moment in time in which a unique conscious entity that has never arisen before nor ever will again flows in and out of existence, like the flame of a candle which continuously renews itself even as the heat and light of one moments dissipates out into empty space the next; with all the memories of the conscious entities that inhabited the space behind my eyes before it, yet with no true ontological continuity between them?
It is spooky but less so if you subscribe to a more procedural version of consciousness. The phenomenon of phenomenology may mislead us about what the self is.
Yes, it’s a very similar idea with anesthesia. It uses the same regard for self as being something more than just a meat bag in motion. Anesthesia is understood as a reversible suppression of consciousness, memory, sensation, and awareness. If consciousness completely disappears, how do we know the subjective “you” that wakes up is identical to the one that went under?
Now that’s got me spooked out about how could I know if I’m even the same person moment-to-moment, or what if every blink of the eye or beat of the hard represents a granular moment in time in which a unique conscious entity that has never arisen before nor ever will again flows in and out of existence, like the flame of a candle which continuously renews itself even as the heat and light of one moments dissipates out into empty space the next; with all the memories of the conscious entities that inhabited the space behind my eyes before it, yet with no true ontological continuity between them?
It is spooky but less so if you subscribe to a more procedural version of consciousness. The phenomenon of phenomenology may mislead us about what the self is.
No yeah, I don’t actually believe in what I described, I was just shitting around