Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'
by ben_w on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:46PM
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Consciousness has, I'm told, 40 identifiable meanings. Makes it hard to get to grips with it.
For example, I sometimes have direct awareness of the nature of my consciousness changing with tiredness. Sometimes that has been what I can only describe as if my homunculus has switched to autopilot and is now just watching a cinema of my senses.
But that's probably a terrible description if you've never experienced that yourself.
Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'
by mrtranscendence on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:02PM
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If I'm not conscious, it's rather difficult to explain what I'm experiencing right now.
Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'
by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:23AM
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You're not really "experiencing" anything in the sense you mean. For a few thousand years, your species has communicated to others of its kind with a peculiar evolved language that causes a sort of narrative confusion.
What consciousness? Yes, I am aware that "sleep" means that a person becomes unconscious (trivially demonstrated), but that is not the same thing as "consciousness shutting down". Supposing there is such a thing as consciousness, it doesn't seem to be anything that is suspended by the sleep process. And that's also a big "if", because consciousness is just woo-woo nonsense talked about but never defined by people who haven't quite gotten over the idea that humans don't have some immaterial soul.