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If you could, for a certain length of time, choose to lose consciousness but have your body continue to act autonomously exactly as you would act consciously, AND you receive all the memories upon regaining consciousness, how often would you do it?


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No, this is more like:

*roll out of bed*

"Shit, monday. Time to work... Eh, fuck it."

*BLACKOUT*

*WAKEUP*

*walk through front door of house*

"Man, I sure had a lot of meetings today. I'll have to remember to get those L15 notes to Jerry first thing tomorrow morning. Glad I tried something different for lunch today, Brenda told me about this new sandwich shop on the other side of the square there and she was  right, they got good fucking pastrami. It does suck that I had to tell Len that I couldn't switch shifts for him to be able to coach his kid's soccer game next tuesday. I did let him know that Zoe was looking to swap her thursday night next week."

It's like, you're still you, you remember everything about it being you after the fact, but for that chosen span of time you aren't you.

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This is a fantastic question and makes me think of Chuck Klosterman. It also makes me think of a book by Orson Scott Card called The Worthing Saga, wherein a drug that’s used for space travel that puts you in stasis becomes the status symbol of the super elite, skipping across years. I feel like the popular response is “any time I’m at my day job”, but then I think of how little you might actually be “living” if you did this, and it seems scary. Then it also makes me think of impending mortality and it freaks me out. So no, it sounds great at first, but it also sounds like a life-destroying drug.

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