>>11523959There is no difference. This is something I've thought about plenty. Our perception and reality is just a string of memories. If you can't form anything new, you either 1) Continually live in some repeating memory loop. Or 2) go straight to death (as perceived by the person with memory loss).
If someone had total memory loss, and we interacted with them we would essentially be interacting with a dead person. That person's reality would have "warped" them to death. I don't really have a proper way of articulating it. But because they can't form memories, they essentially go straight to death. Yet we can still interact with them.
Kind of like how you start existing at your first memory. Say, your first memory is at 5 years old -- you don't exist, to yourself, before that time. Your relatives know you exist, and they have memories of you from before you were 5. But you didn't exist, to yourself, before you were 5.
It's similar to memory loss experienced when drunk. You literally "jump" to the next formed memory. You blackout and skip forward to the next memory.
However, it's uncertain what happens if you were unable to form that "next memory". Do you immediately go to death? Or do you just play on repeat?
