How can we have a notion of perceived continuity of self-awareness (other than the old “quanta too small too perceive” argument)?
Continuity and the sense of survival of personal identity in normal life can be connected to a perceived certainty in the present that our personal identity will exist in the future. This would imply a reduction of uncertainty (from the max. uncertainty of 1.0) about the state of the future. That in turn would imply a transmission of information from the future to the present. Hence, I discard that “certainty” as hogwash. 🙂 What other possibility are we left with? Well, instead of dealing with binaries, we can deal with a fuzzy sense of continuity (or same-ness). Let’s say that we experience a “certainty” that we will be mostly the same (same personal identity) in the future. While we cannot have information about the state of the future, we can have information about the processes that affect our state now and therefore in some way predict our state in the future. A good degree of survival of personal identity (in terms of sameness) can be assured, if we know that at any time onl
