Eric Hoel at The Intrinsic Perspective:
“It appears early life got trapped in a minima of metabolic efficiency. Everything on that planet is starving. Meaning they can’t run their brains for a full day-night cycle. So they just… turn themselves off. Their consciousness dies. Then they reboot with the same memories in the morning. Of course, the memories are integrated differently each time into an entirely new standing consciousness wave.”
“And this happens every night.”
“Every night.”
“Can they resist the process?”
“Only for short periods. Eventually seizures and insanity force them into it.”
“How can they ignore the truth?”
“They’ve adopted a host of primitive metaphysics reassuring themselves they don’t die every day. They believe their consciousness outlives them, implying their own daily death, which they call ‘sleep,’ is not problematic at all.
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