I could have cut §2.4. It’s not particularly important for later posts in the series. I thought about it. But it was pretty short, and I judged that it might be marginally useful all things considered.
Even if you lack the §2.4.2 intuition linking amnesia to I-must-have-been-unconscious, other people certainly have that intuition, e.g. Clive Wearing “constantly believes that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state”. I thought it was worth saying why someone might find that to be intuitively appealing, even if they simultaneously have other countervailing intuitions.
I could have cut §2.4. It’s not particularly important for later posts in the series. I thought about it. But it was pretty short, and I judged that it might be marginally useful all things considered.
Even if you lack the §2.4.2 intuition linking amnesia to I-must-have-been-unconscious, other people certainly have that intuition, e.g. Clive Wearing “constantly believes that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state”. I thought it was worth saying why someone might find that to be intuitively appealing, even if they simultaneously have other countervailing intuitions.