What if
Posted November 4th, 2013 at 05:31 PM by Joshorilla
I have been thinking a lot lately about what would I do if I were to crash, and i'm left in a severely mentally handicapped state.
*No prizes for guessing what has been making me think this way, infact, it need not be mentioned*
The thought frightens me a lot, if I were to retain my intellect yet be trapped inside a body without control "Think metallica's One" would I go crazy? would I have the ability to say "Kill me", would I just get used to it?
Then, if I were to loose a significant proportion of my intellect, to be reduced to nothing more than a six month old infant in an adult man's body, I wouldn't have the mental capacity to even comprehend who I was, what happened, where I was. In effect the former me would have died, leaving behind a body with a dilute sense of what I was, a living corpse without me inside it, or rather a degaussed brain. Maybe you'd have brief moments where the correct neurons all fire to give you brief random periods of lucidity, a clarifying moment from the past brought forward for a second like a man possessed by a shadow of himself, scary.
Is it worth thinking about even? Maybe a little, I think to dismiss it would be more foolish, I guess i'll be turning the fun'o'meter dial down from 9 to 8, turning the music off, skipping the odd beer after work, look out for no1 a bit better.
*No prizes for guessing what has been making me think this way, infact, it need not be mentioned*
The thought frightens me a lot, if I were to retain my intellect yet be trapped inside a body without control "Think metallica's One" would I go crazy? would I have the ability to say "Kill me", would I just get used to it?
Then, if I were to loose a significant proportion of my intellect, to be reduced to nothing more than a six month old infant in an adult man's body, I wouldn't have the mental capacity to even comprehend who I was, what happened, where I was. In effect the former me would have died, leaving behind a body with a dilute sense of what I was, a living corpse without me inside it, or rather a degaussed brain. Maybe you'd have brief moments where the correct neurons all fire to give you brief random periods of lucidity, a clarifying moment from the past brought forward for a second like a man possessed by a shadow of himself, scary.
Is it worth thinking about even? Maybe a little, I think to dismiss it would be more foolish, I guess i'll be turning the fun'o'meter dial down from 9 to 8, turning the music off, skipping the odd beer after work, look out for no1 a bit better.
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