On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:14:04AM -0700, Tom McCabe wrote: > > 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.
All these are experimental or therapeutic techniques for people. Surprising numbers of people have experienced a lacune of flat EEG, sometimes for longer periods. > > 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 There won't be any conscious activity for short (~100 ms) duration or when EEG is flat. There is some relevant activity during REM/nonREM sleep, yes. You'll be getting some considerable retrograde amnesia in cryonics patients (assuming, the suspension can be eventually made reversible) anyway. Nothing can be done about it. > solution, which is obviously a substantial change in > brain-state. -- 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/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
