For my wife and daughters, I sometimes broach the subject of such philosophical aporia.
However, I don't pose as the maieutic method of Socrates, I arrange my thought with using them.
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My father cannot remember the conversation several minutes ago now.
Even if I take out father to a mountain and the river, he cannot remember it until night.
Still his everyday life does not have the big trouble, and, seeing from the side, it looks like a common old man's life.
At the time that he kept on setting fire of cooker, my sister and I changed it for an electromagnetic kitchen utensil in a hurry.
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According to my thought of yesterday diary, the conclusion is
"What we do not remember is what we do not live"
Then it is right my father lives in his life only as for several minutes.
However, he said "You are home aren't you?" whenever I return his house.
As the aspect of my information, he lives now.
However, the day that he could not recognize me, might come.
He could keep sleeping, having for his daily life.
I ask myself.
Could I say "father lives" then?
(To be continued)