(September 13, 2009 at 7:41 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: I said repeatedly, part of the condition of being dead without dying is that there is no way you can come back, so temporary or not, it's irrelevant.
Because the discussion on alcoholics anonymous is surely relavent to the topic of death without dying...
As for those who are sharing their experiences of being insanely drunk while retaining their memory, I'm glad for you all, but like I stated earlier, obviously different people will react differently to alcohol and I wouldn't make the memory claim baselessly. It's from personal experience with people forgetting where they live and asking what their names are that I put forward the idea that they kill off their personalites while the body is still running. One might say that this is akin to being asleep or under anaesthetics as it is drug induced. However, these people are operating consciously (the extent to which this is true is questionable) yet under a totally different set of characteristics. Perhaps you ought to have a house party Doncaster style to get an idea of what I mean...
How is this relevant? Well, let us look at the original post:
Eilonnwy Wrote:say if you were to have a bad accident and you lost all your memories and you personality changes from severe brain trauma, does that mean you, essentially the person you are now, is as good as dead? I mean your body is alive, genetically you're exactly the same, it's just your personality is different and memories are gone. Is the "old" you the equivalent of dead?
Drunk -> act like a different person -> forget most basic aspect of your life -> wake up with no memory of the previous night -> person you were that night has died.
To address the OP directly, yes, your personality is the equivalent of dead. Of course it is. But "you" the person, the body, the mechanisms, you're still very much the same tabla rasa that you were born to be.
