There Are Three Deaths. The First Is

The Brain "fills In" The Missing Information From The Blind Spot. Notice What You See In The Location Of The Dot When It's In Your Blind Spot. When The Dot Disappears, You Do Not Perceive A Hole Of Whiteness Or Blackness In Its Place; Instead Your Brain Invents A Patch Of The Background Pattern. Your Brain, With No Information From That Particular Spot In Visual Space, Fills In With The Patterns Around It. You're Not Perceiving What's Out There. You're Perceiving Whatever Your Brain Tells You.

Every Atom In Your Body Is The Same Quark In Different Places At The Same Moment In Time.

Even Though The Outside World Has Not Changed, Your Brain Dynamically Presents Different Interpretations.

This Is What Consciousness Does: It Sets The Goals, And The Rest Of The System Learns How To Meet Them.

Who You Are Depends On The Sum Total Of Your Neurobiology.