--- Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:53:09PM -0700, Tom McCabe > wrote: > > > Not so much "anesthetic" as "liquid helium", I > think, > > How about 20-30 sec of stopped blood flow. Instant > flat EEG. Or, hypothermia. Or, anaesthesia (barbies > are nice)
This is human life, remember, so we had better be darn sure that all neuronal activity whatsoever has stopped. > > to be quadruply sure that all brain activity has > > stopped and the physical self and virtual self > don't > > diverge. People do have brain activity even while > > unconscious. > > But not relevant activity. If you don't know it's > there it's not relevant. Why? There are umpteen bazillion cases of people going to sleep with some hard problem and waking up with a solution, which is obviously a substantial change in brain-state. - Tom > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> > http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com > http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 > 8B29 F6BE > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: > http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > ___________________________________________________________________________________ You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
