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I really hope you're right. The idea that someone in that sort of condition, apparently beyond further harm, could actually have been conscious for all those ye
by rwallace 14y ago
I really hope you're right. The idea that someone in that sort of condition, apparently beyond further harm, could actually have been conscious for all those years, makes the average horror story look optimistic.
- nsxwolf 14y agoWe don't know that such a person couldn't eventually enter an inner world where they find a kind of peace and fulfillment. It doesn't necessarily have to be a continual conscious horror of being frozen in a hospital bed.
- rwallace 14y agoI've read some of the literature on sensory deprivation experiments, and... let's just say you are more of an optimist than I am.
- nsxwolf 14y agoWhat if they learn to meditate like a monk? Certainly there are people who can enter altered states of consciousness for extended periods who could perhaps tune out the torturous effects of any sensory deprivation.