Cogito ergo sum is Latin for “I think there I am”. According to the French Philosopher Descartes in his Discourse on the Method, it appears that the seat of life is in head or mind.

However, from inSelf Yoga angle, the bodily life is produced, maintained and regenerated by the life force which sits in the lower part of the trunk of the body. The life force is the energy entity that possesses the blueprint of the mind and the rest of the body. The core-self is only remotely involved.

Therefore, these two positions remain at opposite poles of the debate, due to their methods of discovery. But if the core-self had developed sufficient interest into the functioning of the body such a coma would not translate into an actual loss of consciousness, because hopefully, it can monitor the situation of the kundalini in spite of the non-responsiveness of the intellect.

Furthermore, the rational Cartesian Method being decommissioned implies death in some circles or at least a vegetative state of living. This position would not be able to begin to answer the question, as to the body continued maintenance in absence of intellectual and sensory functioning.