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Vegetative Patients Can Still Learn
enigma48 writes to mention that a collaborative study between the Universities of Buenos Aires and Cambridge have demonstrated that individuals in a vegetative state can still learn and demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. Their findings are reported in a recent online edition of Nature Neuroscience. "It is the first time that scientists have tested whether patients in vegetative and minimally conscious states can learn. By establishing that they can, it is believed that this simple test will enable practitioners to assess the patient's consciousness without the need of imaging. The abstract is also available in the advance issue of Nature."
Scientists have found that some teens in a vegetative and minimally conscious state, despite lacking the means of reporting awareness themselves, can learn and thereby demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. By using classical Pavlovian conditioning, the researchers played a tone immediately prior to shotgunning cannabis into a patient's open mouth. After some time training, the patients would start to inhale when the tone played but before the shotgun.
can soybeans learn too? what about cauliflower? shit, next thing ya know the average american will stop being such a naive idiot
now why is it that if you question mainstream cosmology because you've heard of alternatives like the electric universe theory (and happen to notice that the people who scream the most that EU theory is bullshit are also the people who have never seriously studied it and are least familiar with it), you get responses like "who are you to question all of these established scientists" and other thinly veiled appeals to authority, as though the mainstream consensus was never wrong in the past, as though a wrong consensus has never gone on for years before finally being falsified, and other false notions that even a cursory reading about the history of science would quickly eliminate. yet, when you question a medical finding for an equally good reason (a reason to believe that the methodology is flawed, or that assumptions are clouding our observations) you're Informative. i wish you guys would make up your minds and be consistent instead of having different opinions for different subjects. either you see why it's good and healthy to question what is presented no matter who it comes from or you are another sycophant. just pick a consistent position please.
ah well, you fucks might as well know one thing. the more you dismiss what you are obviously not very familiar with, the more you froth at the mouth for no apparent reason at the mere mention of a topic like the electric universe during an otherwise calm and rational discussion, the more you use logical fallacies like the appeal to authority, the more you try so hard to marginalize something because you find it inconvenient and just wish it would go away, or because it threatens what you believe, the more you do these things the more certain I am that the object of your discomfort is a step closer to the truth of the matter and worthy of careful investigation. so, in a way, I should thank you, even if trying to discuss these matters with you is much more tedious and annoying than it should be.
This is how Fox news viewers progressed from "SHOW ME THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!" to "THEY'RE GONNA GIT ME WITH THEM THERE DEATH PANELS!!!"
I think you have that reversed.
Don't worry, Brock'o bamma has a plan for them. They'll just take a pain killer. Why waste money on such useless people?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
how they keep on voting for Republicans....
All women say that but I know damn well that they want massive cock no matter what lies they're spewing to you.