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Originally Posted by maddog
JL,
So imagine a person who is blind, deaf, cannot smell and has no tactile sensory input.
His only contact with his environment is his thoughts. This might be complicated to
imagine so we can imagine this condition occured as some debilitating disease as and
adult. This gives the advantage that he knew of these abilities to create memories before
such a disease. Add to that his ability of an idetic or photographic memory. Thus I am
creating this individual to have a complete memory of every experience before his injury
or disease and no ability now.
How would his conciousness be directed except toward re-thinking his life over and over.
Could he reason, deduce form conclusions ? He could hypothesize/conjecture to his hearts
desire though could not back up one shred of evidence except to recollect what he already
knew. Could this be concious state or would this look more like a state of coma ? Could
he consider his consequences ? Could he theorize about future events ?
Maddog
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if he could get past his misery to even consider any of those options, i'd imagine his own personal convictions would be his only consequence. he could create new scenarios in his own mind, based on what he has experienced. he would have imagination at best. maybe, if we could meet this imaginary fellow, we could observe his actions and determine for ourselves if there seems to be anything which would imply that he was experiencing something we could not comprehend. it's like his limitations would be our limitations, if that makes any sense. if there is something beyond our physical existance, surely he would be more in tune with it. what other option would he have? the only way to go is down. the question remains: is he standing on the ground? the never ending circle of inquisition... !@#! if i know. =P
