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  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldtoRisa@startrek.websiteAm I? Who knows
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    1 year ago

    That’s about consciousness, which is a much larger claim than the self being an illusion. You can have consciousness without a self, that’s what we call ego death. In theory, a conscious being could exist that’s always in a state of ego death, and have no understanding of the self and be utterly confused by why people find anything unintuitive about the teleporter paradox.