servodude wrote:It's not uncommon to watch the EEG activity therein to determine if you're "conscious" for medical procedures
- we've not yet been able to transplant consciousness
Possibly O/T, but I vividly remember a properly chilling half-hour TV drama from the seventies, in which a team of scientists were trying to pick up sentient signals from the preserved brains of various experts which were being kept in tanks on some sort of life support. After months of trying, they started getting feedback from one of the brains, which became stronger and stronger - but not necessarily in a good way.
Completely panicky, in fact. Eventually, the brain communicated to one of the scientists the appalling reality of being trapped inside itself, with no physical input, no way of controlling its fate, and the terrifying prospect of being kept like that in perpetual blackness for all eternity. It kept me awake for a week or two, I can tell you. Quite a lot more troubling than The Fly, where they did transplant consciousness!
BJ