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- wanoir 4mo agoThis is an interesting point I think for direct comparison, the way of re-animating the brain described in the article would need to be attempted on the cardiac arrest patient as well so as to be sure it isn’t a “revival”-capable method Might already be an obvious answer to practitioners in the field
- DontBreakAlex 4mo agoMy understanding is that after a few minutes without oxygen, the chemistry inside your brain is "fucked up" and even if you get oxygen back it's gone, you're already a vegetable. I like to think that "the state of the machine is gone" but I'm not a doctor
- wanoir 4mo ago> even if you get oxygen back it's gone, you're already a vegetable I think that's the part that might get people though. Since a comatose brain is not necessarily fully gone So I guess the question is what differentiates a comatose brain from one that is no longer capable of consciousness?
- tomhow 4mo agoPlease don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html