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Old 10th November 2009   #17
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Originally Posted by chrisdee View Post
I tought my perception was the awareness part of who I am ? Without perception I would not know that I exist. How can I go on without perception ?
You could hypothetically go on without perception (meaning: decoding impulses from "physical reality"), but not without "awareness".

If we leave out any after-life scenarios that speculate that your awareness continues (while ghost stories speculate that also after-life perception continues...) the whole world seizes to exist with your death, because for anyone of us anything exists only while we are aware... without awareness - nothing IS (for each particular one of us).
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