Comments on: On communicating through the coma-like state http://mindhacks.com/2010/02/04/on-communicating-through-the-coma-like-state/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Fri, 25 May 2012 22:09:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pambamboo http://mindhacks.com/2010/02/04/on-communicating-through-the-coma-like-state/#comment-5095 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:16:58 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/on-communicating-through-the-coma-like-state/#comment-5095 NYT also reviewed this study with an ‘interesting’ remark at the end by one of the doctors:
In an editorial accompanying the article, Dr. Allan H. Ropper, a neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, similarly warned against equating neural activity and identity.
“Physicians and society are not ready for ‘I have brain activation, therefore I am,’” Dr. Ropper wrote. “That would seriously put Descartes before the horse.”
via nytimes.com
YIKES!! Sensititvy training working out for you then? ‘Course the patients will never know…… :) (:

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