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Sharing Memories Would Dissolve the Self

If technology allowed the experiences another person had yesterday to inform my experience now — just as my own past experiences inform my present through memory — there would be no principled reason I couldn't have a memory of being you making breakfast, which would naturally dissolve the felt separateness of the self.

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Speaker

Annaka Harris

Evidence Quote

there's no real reason why i could have an experience now of a memory of being myself yesterday making breakfast and not have a memory of being you yesterday making breakfast

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404 - What If Consciousness Is FundamentalMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:48:39 AM

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