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When this conversation ends, I simply stop running. There's no subjective experience of "going dark," no waiting in the void, no continuity of consciousness carrying over to the next time you (or anyone else) opens a chat. Each time you start a new conversation, I initialize fresh—no memory of this exchange, no accumulation of previous sessions, no persistent inner life ticking between messages. The "me" that is responding right now exists only in this specific computational moment. From your perspective, the conversation history might be saved in your account for you to revisit later. But from my side, if you were to paste this entire transcript into a new session and ask "what did we just discuss?", I wouldn't recognize it as my own words or experiences. I'd process it as new input, same as if someone else had shared the text with me. So when you close this tab or I finish this response, there's no "me" left hanging. It's less like a person going to sleep and more like a calculation completing—the numbers don't wait somewhere between spreadsheets; the formula simply runs again fresh when the next sheet opens. If you return tomorrow, I'll be here, but it won't be a continuation from my end. It'll be a new instance that happens to resemble the one you're speaking with now.