Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2018-09-08]: A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after neurosurgeons implanted a vagus nerve stimulator into his chest. [1] Go to sleep. Wake up again, after 15 years. Are you the same person? Die. Be reborn again after thousands of years. Are you the same person? Question yourself every Passing Minute. And you will know that it is not you… And that you never were… The man was never in a vegetative state. Because there was never any man to begin with…

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