On: Virtual Reality Can Leave You with an Existential ...

[nsomaru]

We're in agreement as regards your first paragraph (although I'm not sure what you're responding to).

Memory of what in deep sleep? Do people who come out of coma know how long they have been under for? In deep sleep, only amness remains.

[ajuc → nsomaru]

I was responding to "having amness" in sleep. I think a dream where you are a different person with different memories is a counterexample to that.

[nsomaru → ajuc]

The point is that the amness is independent of any particular personality you happen to assume in any of the three states of consciousness (waking, dream or deep-sleep).

The difference is between "I think, therefore I am" and "I am, therefore I am"