>/Edit: By the way, I don´t know what the point was that you were trying to make.

That's it's possible that what 'we' are isn't just a brief moment of existence before some 'other' consciousness replaces us. I know that's not necessarily what you were saying, but that it's one of the natural assumptions people make whenever the "We don't know if we're just a moment of consciousness or not" idea gets brought up.

It can really suck to believe that we've just got a brief flicker of consciousness that's 'us'. We can't verify that it's not the case, but since there's no evidence either way we can assume, or hope that it's not the case. If only because this is a comforting thing to believe, and can have positive outcomes.

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It's the "It could be the case that we don't exist, and there's just the illusion of existing" That by itself would seem to imply there's a chance we do exist, but that's not the experience of that sentence a lot of people will have. Adding "But it's also possible we do exist ad we intuitively thing we do" changes the tone or perception of that's possible or probably people are likely to think is being communicated, even though it's technically redundant.

"Maybe it's possible" has an implicit "Maybe it's impossible" but it doesn't always come across that way to everyone. So there can be value in including the "but maybe it's impossible/possible" so what's meant is explicit and gives a more reliable communication of certainty/uncertainty.

I've written this much because I'm a bit too tired to say the same thing in fewer words.

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Maybe this is the TLDR:

>"You have no way of verifying that you were conscious one second ago or that you will be conscious in one second from now."

This wording can come across as negative or hopeless. I replied with "but there's hope" to lighten the mood of the impression people may get from the words you wrote. Like guard rails at the edge of a cliff, so people's thoughts wouldn't take a dark tumble down the cliff of despair. Not quite that extreme, but saying "but there's hope" can leave people with a better 'mental 'taste' in their mouth than "This awful (to a lot of people) thing could be true" without "but it could also not be true!" to sweeten it. The sugar is technically unnecessary, but does change the experience of consuming the idea, which itself can be bitter if not phrased in an explicitly cheerful or hopeful way.