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Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep In Brain
An anonymous reader writes "One moment you're conscious, the next you're not. For the first time, researchers have switched off consciousness by electrically stimulating a single brain area. Although only tested in one person, the discovery suggests that a single area – the claustrum – might be integral to combining disparate brain activity into a seamless package of thoughts, sensations and emotions. It takes us a step closer to answering a problem that has confounded scientists and philosophers for millennia – namely how our conscious awareness arises. When the team zapped the area with high frequency electrical impulses, the woman lost consciousness. She stopped reading and stared blankly into space, she didn't respond to auditory or visual commands and her breathing slowed. As soon as the stimulation stopped, she immediately regained consciousness with no memory of the event. The same thing happened every time the area was stimulated during two days of experiments.
That sounds like the experiments that my wife has been doin
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...did it also coincide with the TV being turned on?
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So we have a bunch of male scientists who apparently didn't know about rufies.
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Forget implant devices. With enough mental training, Vulcans can stimulate this part of the humanoid brain just by pinching someone on the neck.
(Luckily, humanoids have very similar physiology in their nervous systems.)
Logical.
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In quantum fluctuations that happen to reside for some time in part of your brain.
There is already decent evidence that the 'soul' is a quantum phenomenon, which allows it to reside both in your brain and survive death at the same time and it explains all sorts of other odd 'miracles' that occur as well as things like telepathy and twins seeming to 'feel' their twin even from great distances.
This satisfies both the religious definition and the OMG GOD DOESN'T EXIST AND I HATE THE IDEA definition.
Get over it it and accept theres more too it than you understand.
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We've been doing all surgery with no Anastasia since 1918
That's the Zzz spot, not the G spot.
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