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Comment author: gjm 07 January 2016 01:44:12PM 9 points [-]

You still have experiences while you are asleep

During some periods of sleep. So far as I am aware, in deep sleep there's no reason to think you are having any experiences at all.

Anyway, for those who don't object to thought experiments: imagine that there's some machine that completely suspends all your brain activity for five minutes, after which it continues from exactly its previous state. Are you the same person after as before? If you answer yes to this -- which I bet almost everyone does -- then the implications are the same as those you'd get from sleep involving a complete cessation of consciousness.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 January 2016 05:34:52PM 3 points [-]

imagine that there's some machine that completely suspends all your brain activity for five minutes, after which it continues from exactly its previous state. Are you the same person after as before?

And the obligatory poll:

Submitting...

Comment author: RichardKennaway 07 January 2016 10:42:05PM 3 points [-]

I am the same parson afterwards

The Rev. Bayes would be.

Comment author: philh 08 January 2016 06:24:19PM 1 point [-]

I'd like to tick both 'I am' and 'the question makes no sense'.

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