Continuity and continuousness of consciousness arguments and experiments

The concept of continuousness of consciousness is the concept of a consciousness not having gaps in time where the consciousness does not exist. A body that is producing a consciousness can also be continuous in space over time.

Continuity of consciousness is the concept of a consciousness not changing to much from one moment to the next.

Is continuousness or continuity of consciousness necessary for producing the same self over time?

The body does not have to be continuously existing for there to be the appearance of continuousness of consciousness.

Right now your consciousness can seem continuous from the time you woke up to the present time. If in another body identical structure and functioning is produced to that of your present body at this moment, it would produce identical behavior that your body is producing now. If we asked you now a series of questions about your consciousness like its continuousness and continuity, we would get a sequence of answers like "Yes my consciousness has been continuous and I have experienced it since I woke up this morning". Very specific answers about what you have experienced will be given with the right questions. If a cidentireplica of this original is asked the same set of questions in the same order, and if the structure and functioning stays the same as in the original he will give the exact same answers to the continuousness and continuity questions.

If asked about if there has been any discontinuity in the consciousness since this morning the original will have said no so will the cidentireplica even if he was created at this moment. The cidentireplica will not be aware of any discontinuousness in his consciousness even though there was no continuous in his consciousness.

If we preform another experiment dealing with awareness of continuity of consciousness, we ask a number of questions about the sameness of consciousness to the original through out the day like what is your name what is you favorite color, number, person etc. We can also ask questions about how you answered these questions earlier this morning. In another body that has a different structure of its brain and then functions differently we ask similar question about name, favorite color number etc. this time we get a different set of answers. Then a a certain time we switch the structure and functioning of the brain to be identical to that of the original. Now all of the answers are going to be identical to that of the original. when asked how he answered the questions before he will reply that he answered exactly the same as did the original did but in fact he answered completely.

By changing the structure and functioning of the body we have changed the beliefs that he had about his continuity of consciousness. He believes that there has been sameness of his consciousness over time. He has no ides that this morning he though he was a different person. By changing the structure and functioning in of the body, feelings and beliefs about the self and its continuity and continuousness through time can be changed.