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This already happens to you every time you go to sleep and wake up. You have absolutely no way of discerning whether the consciousness you are now experiencing is a new consciousness created by your body when you woke up, or whether it is the same consciousness as before you went to sleep.

A body produces consciousness, consciousness does not 'inhabit' a body.



This is not factually true, it’s a philosophical statement.




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