Defining life and death became more complicated still when Adrian Owen and his colleagues (2006) demonstrated that at least some people in comas or "vegetative states" may have more awareness than suspected. These researchers asked a young woman who had been in a vegetative state for 5 months as a result of a car accident to imagine playing tennis or visiting the rooms of her house. Brain imaging with functional MRI techniques showed that her brain responded exactly as healthy adults' brains respond to these tasks, suggesting that she could understand and respond intentionally to instructions and implying that she had some degree of consciousness. A subsequent study found brain responses of this sort in 5 of 54 patients who were classified as in as either a "vegetative" or "minimally conscious" state; one was even able to answer yes-no questions by willfully controlling his brain (Monti et al., 2010).
у практиков должно быть в каком-то ужасном сост. понятие сознания (простите, но напр. Terri Schiavo популяризовала), раз у теоретиков (в смысле даже боддхисаттвы Francisco Varela, кот. наиболее.) отсутствует, коротко говоря (развернуть = отругать "hard problem of consciousness" как непонятно на какую долю драку о терминах между зомби без 1 лица, т.е. неизвестно кто в овощном состоянии - ряд совр когнитивистов или.)
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Date: 2012-04-29 03:31 am (UTC)http://books.google.com/books?id=8smBuRecmDsC&lpg=PT577&ots=RinW6Ova9o&dq=of%20a%20car%20accident%20to%20imagine%20playing%20tennis%20or%20visiting%20the%20rooms%20of%20her%20house.%20Brain%20imaging%20with%20functional%20MRI%20techniques%20showed%20that%20her%20brain&pg=PT577#v=onepage&q=tennis&f=false
Defining life and death became more complicated still when Adrian Owen and his colleagues (2006) demonstrated that at least some people in comas or "vegetative states" may have more awareness than suspected. These researchers asked a young woman who had been in a vegetative state for 5 months as a result of a car accident to imagine playing tennis or visiting the rooms of her house. Brain imaging with functional MRI techniques showed that her brain responded exactly as healthy adults' brains respond to these tasks, suggesting that she could understand and respond intentionally to instructions and implying that she had some degree of consciousness. A subsequent study found brain responses of this sort in 5 of 54 patients who were classified as in as either a "vegetative" or "minimally conscious" state; one was even able to answer yes-no questions by willfully controlling his brain (Monti et al., 2010).
у практиков должно быть в каком-то ужасном сост. понятие сознания (простите, но напр. Terri Schiavo популяризовала), раз у теоретиков (в смысле даже боддхисаттвы Francisco Varela, кот. наиболее.) отсутствует, коротко говоря (развернуть = отругать "hard problem of consciousness" как непонятно на какую долю драку о терминах между зомби без 1 лица, т.е. неизвестно кто в овощном состоянии - ряд совр когнитивистов или.)