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Well, if they were able to successfully resuscitate you that means that you weren't truly dead.

• neom 1y ago
  Lazarus syndrome is an interesting read.
  • falcor84 1y ago
    The Jaime Reyes collection of stories? What did you take away from it?
• falcor84 1y ago
  But doesn't that mean that this allegedly philosophical/metaphysical question is predicated on technological advancement? I.e. by inventing a more advanced resuscitation method, people who have ceased to exist would suddenly exist again?
  • lo_zamoyski 1y ago
    No, why would it? Why do you assume they've ceased to exist? Resuscitation is not recreation or re-instantiation. A person prior to resuscitation isn't dead. Rather, some function has ceased (cardiac arrest, for instance) which can, if his state persists, result in death because it will eventually cause all functions to cease and allow decay to begin. What you have in mind is not so much a philosophical problem per se, but a medical or even a biological problem, i.e., at which point is resuscitation no longer possible even in principle? When is there no longer the potential to resuscitate? That would be the point at which the existence of something has ended.