(June 1, 2012 at 7:34 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:(June 1, 2012 at 7:32 pm)Annik Wrote: We become lessened. You brain is everything you are. Your memories, your personality, your skills, your movement, everything. Your brain is you. Once brain death occurs, you lose all of the "human" parts. You are stepped down from an elevated, complex machine to a working sac of organs (assuming that your brain steam is intact to keep your autonomic functions... functioning. Lol). Although, we are elevated by abstract thought more than self-awareness. Our ability to think abstractly is what separates us from animals.
Essentially, you become like a computer that can turn on but can't load and start its operating system.
Indeed. Any data in the hard drive would be wiped, the computer is useless.