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[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 150 points 1 day ago

This is a great example in support of something I often think about. We see our consciousness as "me" and as "the thing in charge" of the body, but really it's more of an ancillary subprocess that the body runs for its own benefit. It's just a special subprocess that does its job best when it mistakenly thinks of itself as being the boss of the body.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

I mean that’s basically what a person who is a vegetable is (sorry, don’t know the correct terminology, someone probably will be offended by that phrase)

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago
[-] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 12 hours ago

In a vegetative state would be more accurate:

The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. This condition differs from a coma: a coma is a state that lacks both awareness and wakefulness. Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness. In the vegetative state patients can open their eyelids occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles, but completely lack cognitive function.

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Didn’t know that! Thanks for the clarification!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 8 hours ago

I didn't either til I looked it up!

[-] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 21 hours ago

Spot the fuck on. BTDT.

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