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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: re: Loose Ends (BRAINSTORM)
Message-ID: <1299@shark.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 17:56:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 26 17:56:56 1985
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References: <4335@ucla-cs.ARPA> <323@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

< brain death of a line eater >

In article <323@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>The device in Brainstorm did have a number of interesting possibilities.
>However, seeing the after-death experience is not one of them, so the
>discussion as it stands is moot.  There would be no way for the device to
>pick up information once brain-death occurred.  In the movie, it just
>blithely continues to record the experiences of her soul.  No doubt this was
>made possible by new astral plane technology they didn't bother to tell us
>about.  Right.
>-=-
>Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking

Well, actually, all the technology has to do is record sensory impressions.
It looked to me like what they are saying is that "you really do go to heaven,
amen, huzzah" but that it's all just a hallucination caused by deteriorating
brain function as the brain slowly dies.

Hutch