The Minimally Conscious State [MCS]
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 5:15 am
Here is an article to give a clue and counter to the nondualism state claimed by DAM.
The nondualist acknowledge there is some kind to transcendental "I" but this is not real thus there is no real "I" at all.
What is really real to the nondualist is the Absolute, Oneness, Pure Awareness, Pure Knowing and the likes.
My contention is the nondualists who claim to have arrive at the conclusion there is no "I" at all but only the Absolute exists based on direct experience, were actually triggered to be in some sort of transitory Minimally Conscious State [MCS] which did not end up as a disorder.
The Minimally Conscious State [MCS is still based on some state of self and consciousness.
There is no such thing as the Absolute which the nondualists claimed as the ultimate real thing.
The nondualists claims are based on a transcendental illusion or transcendental hallucination.
I have stated there are a hierarchy of selves within the empirical self or empirical-I.What is a minimally conscious state?
In recent decades, modern medical technology and resuscitation techniques have produced new neurologic syndromes of severe, and usually irreversible, cognitive and motor disabilities.
The three most significant and most common of these syndromes areConsensus panels of medical societies have addressed the medical and neurologic aspects of these syndromes, including definitions and essential clinical characteristics.1 Many landmark right-to-die cases have been tested in the courts and widely publicized, and multidisciplinary groups have attempted to develop ethical and legal guidelines for these problematic cases.2
- - brain death,
- vegetative state, and
- locked-in state.
The vegetative state is probably the best known of these new syndromes. Patients in a vegetative state are awake but unaware. They have sleep/wake cycles with eyes open for prolonged periods but show no evidence of consciousness on physical examination. The vegetative state becomes permanent at 3 months for patients with anoxicischemic injuries of the brain and after 12 months for those with traumatic injuries. The chance of any meaningful recovery of neurologic functions after these periods of time is extraordinarily rare.
But many medical and ethical controversies still surround the vegetative state. Physicians have noted an unacceptably high rate of both false-positive (patients were incorrectly diagnosed as being in a vegetative state when they had some evidence of consciousness) and false-negative (patients were thought to have some degree of consciousness when, in fact, they were truly vegetative) diagnoses.3 Another problem has been the lack of my specific terminology to describe patients who emerge from the vegetative state to the next higher level of consciousness. Several right-to-die cases have involved patients who clearly were not vegetative but were otherwise severely neurologically disabled.
Because of these and other controversial issues, a multi-disciplinary group of physicians developed a consensus-based definition of this new syndrome and medical criteria for its diagnosis (the Aspen Work Group).4 Previously described as the minimally responsive state, this new syndrome in which the patient emerges from the vegetative state to have some degree of cognitive function is more accurately labeled the minimally conscious state (MCS). The Wendland case illustrates the essential clinical features of MCS and would definitely fit the diagnostic criteria developed by the Aspen Work Group.5,6
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071686/
The nondualist acknowledge there is some kind to transcendental "I" but this is not real thus there is no real "I" at all.
What is really real to the nondualist is the Absolute, Oneness, Pure Awareness, Pure Knowing and the likes.
My contention is the nondualists who claim to have arrive at the conclusion there is no "I" at all but only the Absolute exists based on direct experience, were actually triggered to be in some sort of transitory Minimally Conscious State [MCS] which did not end up as a disorder.
The Minimally Conscious State [MCS is still based on some state of self and consciousness.
There is no such thing as the Absolute which the nondualists claimed as the ultimate real thing.
The nondualists claims are based on a transcendental illusion or transcendental hallucination.