(September 13, 2009 at 12:14 pm)LukeMC Wrote: Now I wanna put forward a few situations to consider.
When you are drunk, are you the same person?
When you get so drunk that you wake up not remembering last night (memory loss), is the person who experienced those memories "dead"?
Does a person with temporary amnesia suffer a temporary death and slowly come back to life? At which point are they the same person? How many of their memories must they re-acquire to be the same person they were before an accident? I think the line is very ambiguous, but nontheless interesting.
There certainly are interesting scenarios to consider. One thing they all have in common is that they are temporary situations. The word "dead" itself refers to "the end" AKA "no turning back" so I think for these situations it would be inapplicable.
They are more like "temporary blanks", in that respect.
The dark side awaits YOU...AngryAtheism
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war..." - Plato
“Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...” - Richard Dawkins
