A journalist shot by police during the 2020 Minneapolis unrest following the murder of George Floyd is dying from her injuries, friends say.
Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a “less-lethal” round. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and was blinded in one eye.
Sure the brain may survive, but will the consciousness that you identify as you survive?
Consciousness is not even the wholly the same moment to moment, so you don’t even need to focus on differences before and after brain damage / trauma to raise this question.