On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 4:16:07 AM UTC-4, Kim Jones wrote: > > > > On 23 Jul 2014, at 4:33 am, Craig Weinberg <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > To be unconscious is not merely to lose the faculties which make our > quality of life human, but to lose all faculties. > > Perhaps, but I doubt that you lose your 'self'. A self is immortal. Just > like you wake up from the anaesthetic after the surgery. Where your 'self' > was during, is an open question (downing tequila sunrises in the bar at > Platonia Central???) >
I agree, but I think that just means that the self is a deeper, transpersonal level of consciousness. > > Similarly, is the person who is undergoing transportation-with-delay > unconscious? I don't think that there will be teleportation with delay. Reconstructing a body won't even survive as an organism much less a person. Craig > It is merely said that 'they' (presumably this means their 'self' - > whatever that is, which is what I am asking) is 'stored'. While their self > is being stored somewhere it doesn't matter if we think of 'them' as > unconscious because they will disagree with you from their 1p report on > their experience where they will experience no discontinuity of self > whatsoever. So the self cannot be a secretion of the mind. You can knock a > mind right out and still get a self back when you take all the tubes out > after an extraordinary amount of time. > > Schumacher is still Schumacher. Alive and well, in a coma, as a vegetable > or dead. A person. > > Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
