Re: Can you get asleep and be awakened?

[Maurizio Colucci <seguso forever tin it>]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 02:24 pm, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Maurizio,
>
> That is an interesting philosophical problem. Can a person sleep in two
> places at the same time?

I believe so :-)

In a software i would create two processes and have each one of them sleep and 
wait for a different event.

But a mind is a set of processes too. It is not a unity. When you go to the 
dentist and you get anesthesia, then rip the tooth, there is a part of your 
brain (a process) that screams for the pain. But the part that governs the 
body muscles does not. You might also be interested in the Libet 
experiments,especially the one with the patioent with the brain lobes 
separated; he had two different selves, each one thinking and acting for 
itself, each one controlling one side of the body. And his "consciousness" 
was in neither of them, and all of them. If you are interested I will tell 
you them. Otherwise you can read for example The Mind's Past, by Gazzaniga.