[ExI] Uploading and selfhood
John Winters
ferox314 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 06:10:24 UTC 2008
On 3/29/08, Kevin Freels <kevinfreels at insightbb.com> wrote:
> But while you sleep you are not interacting with the world. Are you saying
> that you cease to persist?
Sleep is not total unconsciousness. It is a narrow-domain form of
consciousness. You can still respond to stimuli, but the threshold is
higher. Brain activity exists. Very specific EEG waveforms reflect
the different stages of sleep.
Coma, on the other hand, is total unconsciousness. And, rather than
the awkward phrase "cease to persist," I would say that, yes, you
cease to exist.
JW
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