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by cairo_x
2293 days ago
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Another difficulty of consciousness is it may not be transient. It may pop in and out of existence, and the only thing giving each instance the illusion of transience are the memories each previous instance have generated. The problem now is the fuzzy definition of a memory and the many different ways the human body may store it (in genetics, neural pathways, in brain chemistry, muscle memory, etc). In order to locate the present consciousness you have to be able to track all of these memory systems to get a lock on to which active brain network shape may be the current instance of consciousness, which may at any time vanish and pop up in another network. Consciousness not being transient is kind of terrifying. It's like a mental version of 'The Prestige'. Every night when you lose consciousness, or maybe every time you lose or change a train of thought, 'you' essentially dies, and is cloned/re-imaged by your memories at some other location in the brain. |
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