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TheOtherDave comments on Open Thread, October 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 October 2012 04:11:45AM 3 points [-]

Actually, I expect that our normal waking experience is also discontinuous, in much the same sense that our perception of our visual field is massively discontinuous. Human consciousness is not a plenum.

Comment author: Nornagest 07 October 2012 04:49:51AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I was trying to get at that with the parenthetical bit in my first paragraph. Could probably have been a bit more explicit.