Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?
Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?
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Consciousness is often said to disappear in deep, dreamless sleep. We argue that this assumption is oversimplified. Unless dreamless sleep is defined as unconscious from the outset there are good empirical and theoretical reasons for saying that a range of different types of sleep experience, some of which are distinct from dreaming, can occur in all stages of sleep.
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Your brain is still very much active. It's more like running a computer with the display turned off.
A human being is a process of computation. Ending the computation is death. Pausing the computation is, well, simply pausing the computation. It has no profound significance.
(This is also my answer to the "teleporter problem." As long as the computation continues, a change in the substrate on which it takes place also has no profound significance.)
Death is 'Long Death', Sleep is 'Short Death', and Naps are 'Power Death'.
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Me: Sleep, how I loathe those little slices of death.
Also me: watches 2 hours of unnarrated sleeper train travel videos on YouTube
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When people ask me what happens when you die, I say:
"Remember what it was like before you were born? Well it's a lot like that."
And blocked