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Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Re: Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Post by fwip »

saulrh wrote: post #76
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #13

Throwing it out there—when I'm dead, you are totally allowed to resuscitate my brain. Better than being dead. Please make sure I am supplied with some good books to read, if at all possible.

Strongly agreed. The "what if they wake me up to torture me" scenarios seem like wild catastrophizing to me - if someone has the political power and resources to develop special brain-torture gear, rez me, and keep me alive so they can torture me, they have the political power and resources to kidnap me and torture me with knives and fire as long as they want. It'd probably even be easier for them to do it to my phys…

And if the dystopia sucks, die again.

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Post by bdamm »

xfitm3 wrote: post #80
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #13

Throwing it out there—when I'm dead, you are totally allowed to resuscitate my brain. Better than being dead. Please make sure I am supplied with some good books to read, if at all possible.

I can't relate to this at all. When I'm dead, I'd like to cease. I have no desire for my brain to outlast my body.

I'm with you. Once dead I'd prefer to stay dead. It's actually a comforting thought to know that my life will end. For me it brings meaning to the life that I do still have.

Re: Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Post by rixed »

Immediately reminded me of that unforgettable movie in which a 1WW soldier who have lost all his sensory inputs and motor control and is still alive brain is used for experiments.

Movie title is "Johnny got his gun". No idea how mainstream it is but i suspect not that much.

If you believe nothing could be worse than death, you should consider to watch it.

Re: Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Post by bdamm »

ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #38
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think so. Still better than being dead. (If they're explicitly trying to cause me pain, that would be a no.)

There won't be any pain as brains don't have nerve endings. But you won't have any other senses too. Just pitch blank, deathly silence, floating for eternity.

"floating", "silence", and "black" are sensory states. There's no assurance that a brain in a pool would feel any of these. It's hard to know what a brain will project as it attempts to construct a reality matching that for which it evolved.

Re: Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Post by jhomedall »

saulrh wrote: post #64
nabla9 wrote: post #23

Imagine donating your body to science and then waking up in a lab as a brain in a vat. "A Living Soul" by P. C. Jersild is amazing sci-fi book exploring this. https://www.amazon.com/Living-Norvik-Press-English-Swedish/d... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Jersild

It'd actually be fantastic. If I've donated my brain to anything like the modern research apparatus, I can be relatively sure of one of two possibilities: Either my brain was chosen as a test, in which case the project is on the news literally worldwide and the ethics have had the crap argued out of them and I can be sure that any limitations of the environment are due to technological shortcomings and I get to parti…

Option 3: the experience of being disconnected from your body is so distressing that you can do nothing but attempt (and fail) to scream. The scientists have no idea you are in distress. This goes on for months or years. By the time technology develops to a point where they can communicate with you, you are irreparably broken.

Re: Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Post by utexaspunk »

nabla9 wrote: post #23

Imagine donating your body to science and then waking up in a lab as a brain in a vat. "A Living Soul" by P. C. Jersild is amazing sci-fi book exploring this. https://www.amazon.com/Living-Norvik-Press-English-Swedish/d... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Jersild

I was thinking of the Bobiverse- have your head preserved for reanimation when future technology allows, only to have it declared a non-person and sold to a corporation which digitizes your brain and puts it in a satellite...

https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/B01L08...

Re: Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Post by Skunkleton »

contravariant wrote: post #29
equalunique wrote: post #26

>a specially designed liquid round the brain, which contained a synthetic blood to carry oxygen and drugs to slow or reverse the death of brain cells. I had no idea humanity achieved synthetic blood. This is from the study: >a haemoglobin-based, acellular, non-coagulative, echogenic, and cytoprotective perfusate that promotes recovery from anoxia Am I the only one excited by what viable synthetic blood might mean for…

I reckon artificial blood is a lot easier in the absence of an immune system.

It probably helps that it doesn't need to last more than a few hours too.

Re: Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Post by dade_ »

nabla9 wrote: post #23

Imagine donating your body to science and then waking up in a lab as a brain in a vat. "A Living Soul" by P. C. Jersild is amazing sci-fi book exploring this. https://www.amazon.com/Living-Norvik-Press-English-Swedish/d... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Jersild

Or have your body frozen and brought back to life when they can cure your disease: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4074928/

Re: Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

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Post by itodd »

bradjohnson wrote: post #84
sfkdjf9j3j wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really that weird to not have "enemies"? There I people I wouldn't hang out with or wouldn't work with again, but I don't think I'd consider them enemies.

It's very weird to think that people would even care enough about a dead person to single out your brain for "payback". Even weirder to think that these people would somehow be in power.

Are seriously forgetting who is currently president?
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