Waking is dreaming - by Kai - golden blue
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Notes on consciousness and sleep
Sleep teaches us a few things about consciousness. One, it’s possible to be unconscious and alive. Sometimes when we wake up, we know we weren’t conscious a moment ago and are conscious now. Two, it’s possible to be conscious but disconnected from the world. In dreams, we often aren’t aware of the external world at all, but we’re undoubtedly “conscious” in the sense of having an experience. The 2024 review paper “Consciousness and sleep” explores the current state of research into those two ideas; here are my notes. First we should establish the main technique researchers use to probe…
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