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Scientists may have found the consciousness on and off switch
techtimes.com ^ | July 8, 8:47 AM | Robert Lawson, Tech Times |

Posted on 07/08/2014 7:51:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The journal Epilepsy and Behavior published the findings of the accidental discovery. The evidence was found when scientists were studying an epilepsy patient. They used electrodes deep within a patient's brain to try to determine where her seizures were coming from.

... The scientists stimulated an area of the brain called the claustrum, an area of the brain that had never been stimulated. Once stimulated, the woman, who was reading, stopped responding to all visual and audible cues, as if she were a robot that had been shut down.

The team was able to recreate the scenario several times to confirm their findings. The patient had no recollection of the time that she was "off."

As one report noted however, the woman did not have an average brain because her hippocampus had been previously removed to treat her epilepsy.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: brain; consciousness; mind

1 posted on 07/08/2014 7:51:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Fantastic discovery! Now I have a way to turn the brains of all my co-workers to the “on” position. Phew.


2 posted on 07/08/2014 7:53:41 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: BenLurkin
If it really works,then it remove the risk of injury from anesthetics during surgery.
3 posted on 07/08/2014 7:54:51 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: BenLurkin

Great! Once they figure out how to do it remotely (without physical contact) then we are screwed. Just turn us off if we don’t like what they’re doing to us...


4 posted on 07/08/2014 7:58:19 AM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: BenLurkin

So there may be a cure for democrats? ;-P


5 posted on 07/08/2014 8:03:26 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: MortMan

the great UNDEAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQWmMfjaXlc&feature=kp


6 posted on 07/08/2014 8:06:21 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: BenLurkin

Did they just give away the ending of the upcoming ‘Lucy’ flick ;?


7 posted on 07/08/2014 8:07:47 AM PDT by mikrofon ( Johansson BUMP)
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To: BenLurkin
The scientists stimulated an area of the brain called the claustrum, an area of the brain that had never been stimulated. Once stimulated, the woman, who was reading, stopped responding to all visual and audible cues, as if she were a robot that had been shut down.

So basically they turned her into an Obama drone...

How do you like this drone, crying like she is meeting Jesus himself. Absolute 100% drone controlled and programmed by the MSM...I wonder if someone has to bathe and feed her as well.


8 posted on 07/08/2014 8:12:30 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Fish Speaker

Have no fear! We’ve still got our tinfoil helmets to protect us!


9 posted on 07/08/2014 8:57:33 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Oh. I thought she was crying ‘cause he has his left arm raised and she caught a whiff.


10 posted on 07/08/2014 8:59:38 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (First Third-World Despotism. Overthrow Obama.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The woman in the yellow Rosie the Riveter shirt? I have a deep yearning for the ability to climb through the picture so I could slap the crap out of her.


11 posted on 07/08/2014 9:02:47 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: corkoman

They should just study Hillary.

Obama has never his on.


12 posted on 07/08/2014 9:48:55 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

LOL! Or he ate onions.


13 posted on 07/08/2014 9:55:19 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

It looks like she is standing at attention and saying “Yes sir Obama! What ever you say Mr. Obama!” Just wait till we get closer to 2016, we’re going to see these same dingbats acting this way for Hitlery or Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren. “So what if she’s a hardcore communist, she has ovaries and she is for the children! I am so voting for her!”


14 posted on 07/08/2014 10:01:09 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Yep, they’re gibbering morons. The woman in the pic has that batcrap crazy expression I see on female drivers who have Obama bumperstickers.


15 posted on 07/08/2014 11:26:31 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Fish Speaker
Great! Once they figure out how to do it remotely (without physical contact) then we are screwed. Just turn us off if we don’t like what they’re doing to us...

Actually there have been all sorts of research into the effects that certain tones/sounds have on people (like falling over, losing control of their bowels, etc.) in the name of "crowd control".

16 posted on 07/09/2014 9:44:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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