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I recently watched this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI) video by CGP Grey, where he asserts that the only reason that the teletransporter really frightens us is the continuity of consciousness.
However, this same criterion applies to general anaesthetic and sleep. If that's the case, then unfortunately sleep abrogates the criterion we have for personal continuity, and so kills us. I recognise Parfit claims that this "doesn't matter", but I don't see my own permanent death as something that "doesn't matter". If anything, it is of utmost importance. Why bother planning for a future I won't exist in? Please just for the purposes of this assume consciousness is what matters.
This (http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1049286) CNN article presents the idea concisely, as does this (http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1) comic
I've been having sleepless nights lately, so I just want to see if any philosopher has addressed the continuity of consciousness as the primary component of identity **specifically**.
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>>3274313
When you sleep your awareness doesn't cease just because you're not consciously observing the outside world, your brain is still processing information and in many cases you experience dreams.
Nothing is lost through sleep besides useless memories that aren't important enough to make the trip from short-term memory to long-term memory, don't worry anon, you're not dying every night, if suicide where that easy I'd probably sleep a lot more.
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>>3274313
Your brain still works even under general anesthesia
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The difference is that by sleeping, your body doesn't cease to exist, and reappear when you wake up.
Whereas the teleporter disintegrates your atoms (killing you), then reassembles local planetary atoms into a copy of you (which then continues with your identity).
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>>3274356
You are overselling the sleeping portion, it's more of a different state of consciousness, your brain activity while sleeping is still sophisticated.
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>>3274367
Right, but if your consciousness stops being produced when you sleep, and is then reproduced when you awake, isn't that in principle the same as the teletranaporter, as far as it relates to consciousness?
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We're teleporting planck lengths all the time.
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>>3274373
Yet during periods of dreamless sleep I have no awareness or perception, do I?
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>>3274382
So?
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>>3274313
Literally no point in discussing it because if it's true you've already died at least 6750 times to be old enough to post on here or more. At that point you're not even the copy of the copy of the copy of the copy, you're just the new fifa but an even further into the future fifa.
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