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Crawling Across Chaos and Time Without End
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Apparently, new research shows that people previously thought to be in a vegetative state can respond to questions “in a funny way” by being prompted to think of things as a way of answering the questions. The scientists get the answer by looking at brain scans. Buried in the news article was a sentence which I’ve summarised as this post’s title:
You see, even though the person is vegetative (i.e. half-way to being dead), they can still hear and think – but are not aware that they are doing so! I don’t think I can see anything that’s more bizarre. It’s a kind of dream. For a worst case scenario, consider hearing your relatives talking about switching your machines off. To you, you see it as a dream – or as a witness to a film. In a film you see horrors and niceties, but are always aware that it’s a film. In the vegetative state, you see horrors and niceties, but are never aware that it’s real.
- and it implies that many judicial cases could be on the way. What price a life? It also shows that the gap between life and death is an even fuzzier one than we imagine, or legally define, in this land. Possibly Related Sites
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