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Re:The Hayworth-Miller 2019 Debate About Brain Preservation by ralfd on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:03PM (#24464303)
Hm. The cessation of electrical activity is just that which is measured on scalp EEG; ie, we can only really be certain that the most superficial layers of cortex aren't firing and what we are measuring.
Re:The Hayworth-Miller 2019 Debate About Brain Preservation by porejide on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:51PM (#24465922)
Very fair point. There are other examples that go beyond DHCA, though, and point clearly in the same direction. One example is that sometimes people suffer cardiac arrests and lose consciousness for minutes to hours 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.06.015. Coordinated electrical activity stops after a few minutes following cardiac arrest, but people can (rarely) be revived with their apparent memories and personality intact.