ABSTRACT
The hypothesis of a persisting Self provides a theoretically simpler explanation of the experience of continuity. To be aware of the continuous passage of time the Self must persist, and in being aware of the passage of time it is aware of its own continuity. E. J. Lowe refers to the continuity of the capacity for perception, which could be interpreted as the continuity of consciousness, but this requires the continuity of consciousness to be shown. Peter Unger's objection is directed at the continuity of consciousness. The sense of continuity of experience and agency during normal waking consciousness seems so strong that even the bare logical possibility of the continuity being illusory is difficult to accept, and there is no reason to believe that there is any discontinuity. Serial co-consciousness provides a relation of the right kind for co-personality of experiences in an unbroken stream of consciousness.
