Your survivors will experience the time after your complete shutdown. You won;t.
What will you experience then? Going to sleep. Basically like every other time you went to sleep. — Michael Ossipoff
You never experience a time when there's no experience. — Michael Ossipoff
I passed out once for ten minutes. When I came round, I had no idea how long I'd been out. Another time I passed out for twenty minutes, same result. The last time it could be like that, only no coming round. Of course I won't be round to tell the tale. But that doesn't mean it's a tale that can't be predicted, whether truly or falsely. It doesn't sound meaningless - it's an explanation of 'infinitely long and unconscious'. — Cuthbert
.What do you think about the possibility of everyone's consciousness continuing indefinitely once it has been awakened?
.Each conscious entity has its own possibility-story that adapts to allow its consciousness to survive within that possibility-story. For example, someone could die in a car accident in my reality, but in theirs, the paramedics are somehow able to revive that someone, so that their reality can continue.
.Or perhaps there is no interdependence between realities - each conscious entity's reality branches off from one of many source realities at the time of birth of consciousness.
.Since I can only have conscious self-awareness in one reality, I guess this would mean that I would be the only truly self-aware conscious entity in my reality...?
Your survivors will experience the time after your complete shutdown. You won;t.
What will you experience then? Going to sleep. Basically like every other time you went to sleep.
.But here lurks a problem, for our notion of sleep is empirical, even for so called "maximally unconscious sleep."
.For example, the meaning of a "fully unconscious sleep" from a first-person perspective is the experience of being presently awake but without having memories of being asleep.
.This is the first-person empirical definition of "fully unconscious sleep".
.Without the experience of being awake yet having no previous memories of being asleep, one cannot assert the existence of fully unconscious sleep.
.Hence the notion of an infinitely long and unconscious sleep…
.…is a meaningless sequence of words that contributes nothing to any discussion.
Like before we were born, but without the prospect of coming to life at some point in time. — CuddlyHedgehog
So easy and yet so difficult to comprehend. We accept those short periods of absence when we are asleep or unconscious because we know we will be coming back round to being the centre of the universe. The prospect of never existing again though...
Millions of years go by, the planet gets inhibited by another form of life or gets sucked into a tiny black hole. The universe continues to be there, as it always has, occupying infinity with no beginning or end, in time or space. Forever evolving, contracting and expanding. And where are we? Absent. Like before we were born but no starting point this time. Non-existent... FOREVER. Harrowing or liberating?
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