Brain doesn't die with the body?!

[omw/2/ctb]

A research team in America has partially revived the brains of pigs several hours after death and removal of the brain from the skull. The scientific community is buzzing about the implications for medical treatments, but I'm fascinated about the implications for the dead and dying...
The researchers were careful not to attempt to revive consciousness in the brain, but clearly that might be a future possibility...can you imagine consciousness in a brain already removed from a body?! The idea is as thrilling as it is terrifying to me.

Hours After Pigs' Death, Scientists Restore Brain Cell Activity

Scientists have restored brain circulation and some cell activity in pigs' brains hours after the animals died in a slaughterhouse.

www.livescience.com

 

[TheREALDisgustingMe]

Oh god, that IS terrifying.

 

[Walilamdzi]

I read that yesterday too. Didn't say the levels of electrical activity were nothing like enough to indicate consciousness?

 

[MistakesHappen]

 

[marcusuk63]

 

[omw/2/ctb]

I read that yesterday too. Didn't say the levels of electrical activity were nothing like enough to indicate consciousness?

One of the articles quoted the doctor who ran the study saying that they deliberately avoided actions that might have restored consciousness and even had interventions ready in case it happened inadvertently. Freaks me out to think of the implications.

 

[EddieAllenPoe]

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You beat me to it.

 

[Moms_Spaghetti]

One of the articles quoted the doctor who ran the study saying that they deliberately avoided actions that might have restored consciousness and even had interventions ready in case it happened inadvertently. Freaks me out to think of the implications.

I wonder why they wouldnt want to try to revive consciousness, it's not like it was a human they were experimenting on or something.

 

[MistakesHappen]

You beat me to it.

Eheh