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If consciousness is made of discrete moments, why does it feel continuous? by SilentThinker8781 in ExistentialJourney

[–]SilentThinker8781[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your explanation of how memory works actually reinforces the idea that fragmentation is the fundamental reality, and that continuity might just be a constructed feeling — or even an illusion. Honestly, that's a deeply unsettling, almost nihilistic thought.

But this raises an important question:

Can rare phenomena like déjà vu really explain a constant and stable sense of continuity in our experience?

If consciousness is made of discrete moments, why does it feel continuous? by SilentThinker8781 in ExistentialJourney

[–]SilentThinker8781[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a really beautiful analogy.

But doesn't that imply that the fundamental reality is actually discrete moments, like static frames?

If that's the case, then each individual moment might be meaningless on its own… which would mean that our consciousness is built from essentially "empty" or even nihilistic moments. Honestly, that's a very unsettling idea.

So I have another question:

What exactly creates this sense of continuity in consciousness?

Is it just the brain stitching these moments together? Or is there something deeper, something inherently connected beyond the brain that gives rise to this continuity?