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Re:No, really—consciousness is worth thinking about by guard-of-terra on Sunday August 11, 2013 @07:51PM (#6196904)
That's what your player character in an action video game "thinks". If I get killed, I won't care anymore, because there would be nothing left of me.

Guess what, his consciousness is you and you will close the game and walk away. In a consciousness dimension your character can't even imagine.

This is absolutely unrooted parable, except that consciousness remains a mystery. What does it hide? We don't know.

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Re:No, really—consciousness is worth thinking about by seiji on Sunday August 11, 2013 @07:55PM (#6196916)
Video game characters aren't consciously autonomous though.

There's always the reductive argument of "Well, we could be running in a computer simulation and when you die here you're perfectly recreated in another simulated universe."

But, we're not.

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Re:No, really—consciousness is worth thinking about by lmm on Monday August 12, 2013 @06:56AM (#6198582)
>Video game characters aren't consciously autonomous though.

What distinction are you claiming exists between your own subjective experience and that of a video game character? (follow-up question: why do you believe this?)

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