General Chatter

[Sentimental Gentleman]

The implication for most of my girls then would be that they're completely comatose in Equestria, because they spend pretty much every second of every day here now.

Theirs a crazy theory.

Leading me to ask do you think you just temporarily go to another universe and live while in a coma?

I don't find that plausible. What kind of universe could make itself manifest without the system of signs that is materiality? I think that consciousness is required for any kind of "communion," if you will, with other existences. A coma entails a lack of consciousness. Therefore, I do not believe one could simply "go" to another universe without the conscious attribute of the will.

Granted, I'm just arguing here for the sake of argument. But there's my two cents.

The conscious still exists within a coma. Science has proven that brainwaves are still active when a person is comatose, and it's possibly theorized that a "coma dream" is the most happiness one can ever experience because the brain is releasing so many chemicals to keep the rest of your body from entering the panic state associated with near death.

I don't think consciousness can be reduced to a mere concatenation of brainwaves and chemicals. What I am speaking of is a lack of any object for the mind to cleave to. Without the potential for focus and divination from the symbolic I'm not sure that the consciousness can be said to "go" anywhere, as the original query would have it. But you raise a good point about alien wills within the multitudes of the being, at least as I read what you have written.

For the record, though...I think it is, to some degree, danger and folly to sing the praises of comas in any respect. They are a violence against life within the world, the life to which we must dedicate ourselves, and as such should be looked at without sentimentality or desire, lest their false temptation hurl some unfortunate soul into misery in their pursuit.

Basically, comas are bad, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise. I felt I had a moral responsibility to say that. I hope I didn't trouble anyone by doing so.