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Creutzer comments on [LINK] Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Creutzer 28 August 2014 05:54:35PM *  0 points [-]

That commits you to the position that all instances of human unconsciousness are just failure to form memories and do a bunch of other things (like interact with the environment), but the lights are never off, as it were.

Comment author: cameroncowan 28 August 2014 07:43:33PM 0 points [-]

Yes, and people live their whole lives this way, a state of unconscious where they don't do all kinds fo things. There were instances of people being in freeze or not remembering very traumatic events. There are people that have terrible things happen to them and have no memory of it until something triggers. That's why we use EMDR to help those people.