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EA-3167yesterday at 9:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's not a great article, and it glosses over the reality that if you hooked this brain up to an EEG it would show unequivocal brain death. CELLS of the brain are alive, but in terms of being able to function in any sort of coordinated way there that ship sailed minutes after the person who donated their organs died. The wave of depolarization that marks brain death isn't something we can reverse, and what's being done here is all about metabolism and structure rather than those much more subtle functions.

IMO the more questionable aspect of this entire operation is the use of "AI" to reach conclusions about how the test molecules are being metabolized, but that's a lot less compelling than implying that some company is somehow preserving life in a disembodied brain.


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genxyyesterday at 9:36 PM

> isn't something we can reverse

Until you hook it up to a lightening rod in the top of a castle!

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DontBreakAlexyesterday at 10:40 PM

Everyone upvote this guy more, thanks