Comment on Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?

• jdsquared@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  See for me I’m not sure why that’s hard to accept. I think I first heard it from Alan Watts, that there were billions of years of space before I was conscious, so why am I afraid of billions of years of nothing after I’m gone?

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  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not having something in the first place and losing something you have are two different things. It’s like saying to someone who just lost their partner “don’t feel bad, for the first n years of your life you didn’t have a partner and you were fine”

    Additionally, it’s not billions of years of nothing. It’s an eternity of nothing. Billions of years may as well be the blink of an eye relative to eternity.

    God, I’m getting anxious just talking about it.

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  • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t say i was afraid of it, just that it seemed unlikely. The billions before you were conscious ended somehow, right?

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