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Ch.I
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p.1
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Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night?
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Full Idea:
As a child it was incomprehensible to me that I did not experience going to sleep, and never remembered it. When my sister said 'Nobody remembers that', I just thought 'How does she know?'
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From:
Bryan Magee (Confessions of a Philosopher [1997], Ch.I)
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A reaction:
This is actually evidence for something - that we do not have some sort of personal identity which is separate from consciousness, so that "I am conscious" would literally mean that an item has a property, which it can lose.
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