So are disabled people still the same person? Are mentally ill people still the same person the way they were before the onset of mental illness?
I have PTSD. Am I still the person before I was traumatized?
Like, don't be so quick with the stakes, gasoline, and matches for the lurching animated corpse, you guys.
Concerning Necromancy
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Fuzzy Necromancer
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Re: Concerning Necromancy
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
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Madner Kami
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Re: Concerning Necromancy
No.
No.Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:57 amAre mentally ill people still the same person the way they were before the onset of mental illness?
No.Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:57 amI have PTSD. Am I still the person before I was traumatized?
With every experience, you change. Every even ever so gradual change will make a different person out of you. Where you turned right yesterday, you would turn left today, even if everything except yourself is exactly the same as the day before.Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:57 amLike, don't be so quick with the stakes, gasoline, and matches for the lurching animated corpse, you guys.
"If you get shot up by an A6M Reisen and your plane splits into pieces - does that mean it's divided by Zero?
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Re: Concerning Necromancy
If a person's been dead for more than ten minutes or so, their brain will have decayed to the point where they will simply be unable to function in any way. Bringing them back as a functioning human being would require spackling in a bunch of new grey matter to replace what was lost, and it's highly unlikely that any memories or personality from their pre-death brain would be retained.
It's the difference between adding new software to your computer and doing a full reboot to factory settings.
It's the difference between adding new software to your computer and doing a full reboot to factory settings.
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Darth Wedgius
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Re: Concerning Necromancy
When someone is or isn't the same person is probably a philosophical question that doesn't have an objectively correct answer. For most people the effective answer is that the person they were and the person they will be is the same person; why save up for retirement just so some bloke with your name is going to be more comfortable unless you are he?
FWiW, I see someone as more a pattern that shapes what is in it than as the stuff itself. Like a wave won't contain the same water as it moves along, or a river. There 's something there, but changes are taking place all the time.
FWiW, I see someone as more a pattern that shapes what is in it than as the stuff itself. Like a wave won't contain the same water as it moves along, or a river. There 's something there, but changes are taking place all the time.
