It was the age-old conundrum: How do I know that the ‘me’ who wakes after a night’s sleep is the same ‘me’… — Charles Sheffield
It was the age-old conundrum: How do I know that the ‘me’ who wakes after a night’s sleep is the same ‘me’ who went to bed? I don’t. I merely employ it as a working assumption, for lack of anything better.
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