I Continue To Be Fascinated

What Happens [in A Coma] Is That You Lose The Grounding Of The Self, You No Longer Have Access To Any Feeling Of Your Own Existence.

I Think It's Reasonable To Say That Even Thought, In All Likelihood, We Have Slightly Different Experiences Of Reality, They Are Similar Enough To Us Not To Clash. In Other Words, I'm Not, It's Very Unlikely, In Fact, Let's Say Impossible, For You To Say The Situation In Which You And I Are In Right Now, Relative To The Machinery That Is Capturing This.

We're Seeing It The Same Way, We're Hearing The Same Way, We Have The Same Conception Of The Situation. And So, For All Purposes, We Are Operating With A Very Similar Perception.

Something May Have Happened Before, And Yet This Thing That Happened Just After May Be So Important That You Don't Even Know About The Thing That Happened Before And When You Tell Your Story To Yourself, Or To Someone Else, It's Going To Be Told Not On The Basis Necessarily Of The Time Course, But Rather On The Basis Of How It Was Valued By You.

Emotion Is Set In Our Genome And That We All Have With A Certain Programmed Nature That Is Modified By Our Experience So Individually We Have Variations On The Pattern. But In Essence, Your Emotion Of Joy And Mine Are Going To Be Extremely Similar.