Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point in time, or is it discrete, where we are conscious only at certain moments of time? Psychophysicists answer this centuries-old question with a new model, one that combines both continuous moments and discrete points of time. (1)

Think.

Could you without non-thinking?

Speak.

Could you without silence?

Live.

Could you without death?

Be.

Could you without being?

Everything is a tautology.

Except tautology itself.