(July 11, 2014 at 8:01 pm)Ksa Wrote: Yes but during clinical death you can die for a few minutes and there's nothing holding your consciousness there either and it's for a longer period of time than the startrek transporter. Despite all you rise again and feel like it's still you.As I understand it, there isn't actually a period of no brain activity with clinical death--just very very low brain activity. But supposing you are right and it really does absolutely stop, then we might be back to Patient A and Patient A1. I just don't know. ---- But I wouldn't get in that transporter or volunteer to have my brain switched briefly off.
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