randallsquared comments on Dissolving the Thread of Personal Identity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: randallsquared 26 May 2014 12:02:06AM 3 points [-]

In fact, people experience this all the time whenever we dream about being someone else, and wake up confused about who we are for a few seconds or whatever. It's definitely important to me that the thread of consciousness of who I am survives, separately from my memories and preferences, since I've experienced being me without those, like everyone else, in dreams.