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cosecantphi
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It's weird, even when I'm not dreaming I'm sure there's some other deeper process going on in there because we know for sure brain activity does not so sharply fall off when we sleep like it does under general anesthesia.
I don't envy people who need stimulant medication, this fucking country's obsession with making sure no one "feels good" when they aren't supposed to is killing people who now can't get their meds because apparently all psychoactive substances need to be under a lock and key with round the clock surveillance and arbitrary restrictions on who can access them because gasp someone might use it go get high!
Fuck all of that, chauvinistic ass medical system feeding bodies right into the prison industrial complex, where doctors turn into cops the moment you need a chemical on their naughty list.
Right, the brain is still working when I'm asleep! I consider sleeping to be part of that time when I'm conscious for the most part, it's general anesthesia where things definitely cease all together.
Yeah, there are times my brain is existing and producing consciousness, and there are times where it isn't, but so far my experience has been an uninterrupted chain of continuous consciousness regardless of any of those events, and as such it might well be the case that's just the one universal constant I can be sure of, and I shouldn't expect that to change with my death, especially when it might be the case that my brain, the thing supposedly producing the consciousness, might exist again in the case of Poincare recurrence, just like it exists again when I come out of the effects of general anesthesia, or it exists again when I'm born.
None of this is solid philosophically or scientifically I'm sure, I'm literally just trying to put it in a way that makes sense to me and the way I understand the rest of the world.
Yeah, I can see how that might be interpreted as ableist, should have watched my wording. What I think I meant by "functioning properly" is essentially "not dead", i.e, my brain is doing my brain stuff right now, i.e it's not currently smeared all over a wall after a high energy impact.
I more than anyone can understand that my brain can take on a very weird array of states and still be conscious and experiencing the world. I've gone down the dissociatives rabbit hole, and the psychedelics rabbit hole, and I've been under general anesthesia before, and all that experience has made it very hard to place what exactly I am in this world, what my subjective experience is.
Like I can come back from all of that, I don't see why I can't come back from more if my brain was rebuilt closely enough later. I don't think I have an eternal soul, I think my conscious experience has thus far been very bound to this body, but I'm not sure if that's only because that's all I can remember.
I don't think it should necessarily, just that the conscious feeling of experience should start back up again.
Good luck with your interview, comrade!
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