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Originally Posted by aklim
Wouldn't that be considered to not be sentient? Much like the lump of flesh that a brain damaged person is?
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That's the direction I was headed -- is insensate the same as insentient? I don't think so, if insensitivity is reversible. Like when a patient is given general anesthesia -- he maybe indistinguishable from a person near-death unless one is aware that the anesthesiologist can revive the patient. Thus, the observer/decider cannot be a pure observer, he must also have some knowledge unavailable to a pure observer. Right?