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And* what about **senile dementia? – The once bright individual whose brain seizes up with (for example) **Alzheimer's disease? Have the Spirit and the Soul fled, leaving just an animal (or, as we unkindly say, a vegetable?) Or are they dormant, awaiting death for release? Or have they simply retreated into an inner World beyond our reach, where they are active and lively still within? Once again, it would be unwise to assume that the potential for awakened Conscience has utterly disappeared.

*[See last previous entry.]

**(?) [Advanced dementia/Alzheimer's, given the rest of the paragraph. The writer of this footnote is, while typing this, sitting with an elderly and very close relation (currently sleeping) who has serious and apparently progressive loss of short-term memory, one of the constituents of what is described as dementia; and the writer of this footnote was for about two years until last year closely involved with the decline from Alzheimer's, and eventual death, of the parent of a very close personal friend. Alzheimer's, and dementia in general, are not binary, on/off conditions as suggested here (and as often understood by those who have little or no experience of them.]

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