From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 1997 - 23:53:26 MDT
Rick Knight wrote:
> To that I pose the question: what of the person who suffers
> irrecoverable amnesia, forgeting all memories of the former life
> including intimate relationships, even children. Did that "person"
> die?
IMHO, yes.
> Who know is in charge of the body of that person?
>
Whoever that person thinks they are.
> The reanimation notions promoted in "Fifth Element" (a person rebuilt
> from a rescued amputated arm I think) is interesting to note. Is
> consciousness embedded in every cell so that when the complete
> physiological form is re-fashioned, the brain re-establishes itself as
> the command center, taking its information from a cellular "upload"?
>
There was a workaround there, in that the DNA was hugely more complex
than human DNA, perhaps enough so to contain the information needed for
the avatar/heroine....
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