Proposal: consciousness very much exists, but continuity of consciousness is an illusion.
If we assume that each moment of consciousness is its own entity, with no connections to any other, we can dissolve many problems around continuity of consciousness, like simulations, teleportation, change of computation substrate, ect.
If we assume that each moment of consciousness is its own entity, with no connections to any other,
Why should we assume it? My consciousness now clearly does have connections to my consciousness one second ago, three hours ago, twenty years ago. One might as well assume that for the keyboard I am using, each moment of its existence has no connection to any other. It is straightforwardly false.
Proposal: consciousness very much exists, but continuity of consciousness is an illusion.
If we assume that each moment of consciousness is its own entity, with no connections to any other, we can dissolve many problems around continuity of consciousness, like simulations, teleportation, change of computation substrate, ect.
Why should we assume it? My consciousness now clearly does have connections to my consciousness one second ago, three hours ago, twenty years ago. One might as well assume that for the keyboard I am using, each moment of its existence has no connection to any other. It is straightforwardly false.