Kai
New
Is it not patently obvious that experience can and does cease to exists when people lose consciousness? What other type of experience do you have in mind besides "as that person"? Perhaps you could clarify your use of "experience" in the context we're discussing.
Funnily enough, no I don't think it is "patently obvious." The fact of losing consciousness, as experienced from the first person, is of an instant discontinuous break in context. Thus, when I am put to sleep on the operating table I awaken in what seems to me the next instant. if I didn't "know" (intellectually) that I'd been put under, and if there wasn't this discontinuous break in surrounding context, then I would have in fact no reference to tell me that I was ever allegedly "not experiencing." In other words, as lived through, it's moot whether there is really a break in experience, and I can make a case that the same might apply to death, on a larger scale.