• kromem@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The same argument could be made for each time you go to sleep. That the ‘you’ that’s conscious ends to never exist again and the one that wakes up has all the same memories and body but is no longer the same stream of consciousness that went to sleep, not even knowing it’s only minutes old and destined to die within hours.

    ‘You’ could have effectively lived and died thousands of times in your life and not even be aware of it.

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      You cannot step into the same river twice - Heraclitus, ~550 BC

      We are all a series of continuous evolution, alteration and change. “I” am not the same person who began this sentence. The idea that “I” cease to exist overnight and begin anew in the morning is meaningless. There is no one version of me. I live - and to live is to change!