>>4071073>How does your consciousness ceasing to exist because its purely biological make sense if the materials making up your body are cycled out every decade and the thing you are now is not the same physical thing you were a decade ago?Because all the parts work together as they worked a decade ago. Just like you can sail on a ship in which every part was replaced, just like you sailed in the original ship. But you can't sail on a ship if it was disassembled.
>Wouldnt your consciousness have ceased already by this point? Wouldn't your leg disappear, or stop working, or become somehow inactive because every atom in it is replaced?
>No it isnt.It is, we have no evidence for a crunch-bang cycle.
> If your consciousness is purely a physical phenmeonon caused by a specific set of atomic patterns forming together, then in an infinite banging-crunch cycle the necessary combination of those particles would inevitably occur again infinitelyYes, I agreed to this, I said that the assumption that the universe is a crunch-bang cycle is based on nothing.
> and as such your consciousness would not truly "cease" so much that it would essentially be in a long hibernational stateWell, this is semantics, I'd say it would cease to exist but then a copy of it would appear, and then another one and so on. Since my subjective perception is limited to my life, and the next copy would be limited to that life, and so on, I wouldn't say that it's the same continuous thing. You can recall your experience before hibernation.
