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Brillyant comments on Consciousness and Sleep - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Brillyant 08 January 2016 07:51:03PM 0 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?

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Comment author: polymathwannabe 08 January 2016 08:04:01PM 0 points [-]

Addressed before. TL;DR: it's not really a question about the existence of sound, but about the definition of sound.

Comment author: Brillyant 08 January 2016 09:11:21PM 1 point [-]

This is what I was referring to.

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