1/4 A provocative paper by Tim Bayne @anilkseth and Marcello Massimini. I'm not yet convinced and am inclined to think no awareness is an island, but the possibility deserves serious considerationhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223619302164 …
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This is such a complex issue though! If part of what is happening is the stabilizing of attention to the point where you stop being responsive to inputs, why is it not more like dreamless sleep, or would that preserve too much lucidity to count as nirodha-samāpatti?
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The mindless samādhi-s (both asaṃjñā samāpatti and nirodha samāpatti), along with dreamless sleep, coma, and other significant interruptions of ordinary consciousness challenge the diachronic unity of consciousness. This is the subject of my second master's thesis. 1/
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