RE: FIN too

From: Charles Goodwin <cgoodwin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:18:04 +1200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Standish [mailto:R.Standish.domain.name.hidden]
>
> This case bothers me too. The initial (or perhaps traditional)
> response is that consciousness is lost the instant blood pressure
> drops in the brain, a few hundred milliseconds after the neck is
> severed, thus the beheading is not experienced. However, there is some
> anecdotal evidence (eg the beheading of Lavoisier) that consciousness
> can survive up to 10-20 seconds after the neck is severed.
>
> Even if this is true, it still does not eliminate magical solutions,
> such as waking up "Matrix"-style in an alternative reality.

Yes....or in a tipler style afterlife inside some megacomputer trillions of years in the future (or equivalently, I suppose,
somewhere else in the multiverse). Definitely starts to sound like an act of faith to believe that's what would happen, though....

Even if you lost consciousness a split second after having your head removed, QTI would still have to explain how you got from
'immediately after being beheaded' to anywhere else...!

Charles
Received on Mon Sep 03 2001 - 21:16:50 PDT