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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Brainstorm loose ends
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 21:43:38 EST
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It seems clear to me that the "brain death" interpretation is not what was
intended by the writer.  Such things as the angels and her looking down upon
her body clearly imply that what is being experienced is the beginning of
the afterlife, and not random signals flickering through a crashing
biocomputer.

The whole story is structured as a mystical quest to discover the nature of
the after-death experience.  What dramatic tension is there in "I MUST find
out what the subjective experience of brain death is like!"

The issue is never mentioned in the movie.  No one speculates that perhaps
what she is experiencing is merely brain death.  The issue obviously never
occurred to the writer at all, or there would be some mention of it.
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Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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