[cwillu]

I've undergone some procedures such that I've been put under more than a dozen times in a short period of time. It really hammered home the point (to me) that… the continuity is an illusion in at least some situations. When you wake up, the continuity comes from memory. Fuck with the memory, and you really fuck with the sense of continuity.

[cwillu]

One example: at one point I woke up with utter certainty that nothing unusual had happened in the last hour, and I was rather peeved at how long it was taking to even start with the preliminaries. As in, my sense of continuity was from a moment significantly before the last moment I could later remember (!)

[feet]

That's only perception of continuity. I'm specifically speaking about physical continuity. Continuity of our physical system which has constant internal communication, this internal network dialog does not stop even when under anaesthesia.

Our continued awareness comes from being the same physical system when we wake back up even if you don't have memory of the events.