EphemeralNight comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

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Comment author: EphemeralNight 05 April 2012 12:00:37AM *  5 points [-]

How about "You are less than a day old, because any loss of consciousness is effectively death. The you that wakes up each morning is not a continuation of a previous consciousness, but an entirely new consciousness. The you that went to sleep last night is not aware of the you that exists now, having ceased to exist the moment consciousness was lost.."