Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Aaah, but we take it for granted that things that happen while we are asleep actually happen, even those for which we have no empirical evidence. There are all sorts of states of suspended conciousness in which we do not assume ourselves to temporarily cease to exist.
Hmm, even while asleep, the person still lives, since "living" is linear, meaning there's a beginning and ending.

IMHO, awareness does not equate with existence.
Existence, or you mean "life"? A plant does not have a "brain" but it's still "living".

And no, the movie wasn't Waking Life.
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It was The Others. I saw the 'what' coming, I just couldn't see the 'how' until the very end. A very, very good movie.
I see, I don't know Waking Life, but I've seen The Others. In that movie, there's a bridge between Natural and Supernatural. And the Supernatural beings behave like Natural beings