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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Consciousness and Sleep - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: casebash 07 January 2016 12:04PM

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Comment author: Brillyant 07 January 2016 05:00:31PM 0 points [-]

Sleep or the destructive teleporter (in your example) don't do away with a brain's memories. In my view, this is a key component to what makes up "identity" for people.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 January 2016 05:32:24PM 0 points [-]

And I guess that there are animals that retain memories across periods of being frozen or without measurable brain activity. Not conscious animals probably but that means little in this context.