>>11309079>You don't have access to the consciousness of your past moments either. You have memories of them, but that's not the same thing. If the memory is vivid, it's perhaps pretty close to "having access" to it, but often memories are very faint and vague.Related thought I just had is that when you think about it empathy for other people is pretty similar to memories. You make a imperfect simulation of an another experience based on information currently accessible to your brain. The more similar the person is to you, the better your simulation generally speaking. But whether it's a memory you're recalling or another person your empathizing with, it's still just a blurry simulation of it, some parts more accurate perhaps, some parts more vague and imprecise, with some empty spots and some details just flat-out wrong.
I used to think that when people talked about living after personal death through their children for example that there was something fundamentally wrong about that metaphor, that if *you* are gone then it makes no difference how similar some of the still living people are to you, that there's still the fundamental difference of them not being you. The same would have applied even for something like a clone or a copy of you living after your death. Now I'm a lot less sure. Taken to reductio ad absurdum it seems to lead to thinking that a forgotten party is indeed death.
