[MURG] Not off [dead] during sleep

[alex mcLin]

>From: James Swayze <swayzej at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: murg at minduploading.org
>To: murg at minduploading.org
>Subject: [MURG] Not off [dead] during sleep
>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:23:50 -0700
>
>
>This is purely a layman's view of this but to me it makes incorrect the 
>idea that we are turned off or as good as dead and a new identical upon 
>waking that has bolstered ideas that copies are the same as originals. We 
>apparently are not entirely turned off during sleep. Somehow I 'feel' this 
>impinges on those arguments.
>
>James
>


well, I've always thought those kind of arguments were never really taken 
seriously but more of a thought experiment with the assumption that people 
are "turned" off when they're sleeping. Given documented activity of the 
brain during sleep and the large amount of dreaming most people have...I'm 
pretty sure we all know we still exist while we're sleeping. :)