🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <C1J039.8A9@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.174733.3100@cs.ucf.edu>, clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
>
>|> Corollary question.  If you don't remember, in what sense
>|> are you conscious?
>
>At this point in my life there is a *lot* I don't remember any
>longer.  I do not infer from this that I was unconscious for most
>of my life.

Excellent response.  In any case, memory doesn't work that way (i.e. it
is not a videotape machine).

>                                      Suppose someone offered you
>[insert absurd sum of money or some other desideratum] to be
>tortured painfully and at length under the conditions that (a) no
>permanent harm or disfigurement would result, and (b) that you
>would be given a drug so that although the torture would be felt,
>you would have no memory of it after it was over.  Would you take
>the job?

I certainly wouldn't.

>          If not, why not?

I don't like the idea of people monkeying around with my mind, and I
would not trust their assurances anyway.