[ExI] Uploading and selfhood

[John Winters]

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