I do think this is more of a network level dynamic and a network level emergence of subjective experience. And I think that speaks directly to the question of reanimation,. If you're, and we think about it even in the operator room, we're reanimating from anesthetized stage. In fact, we call it emergence from anesthesia. So, yeah. But if the sum of the parts is greater than or even different than the individual parts, how do you find it? What are you able to do? Maybe that very question is wrong. Not everybody shares it.
Can we bring people back from the dead? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice discuss restoring dead cells, the nature of consciousness, Frankenstein's monster, zombies, and more with neuroscientist, David Andrijevic and consciousness expert, George Mashour.
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