I read in a magazine ages ago about a story of this scientist (I forgot the name of all things). It was the time of the French revolution so all the French royals and their cronies had met their fates under the guillotine; this scientist was included.
Any way, this scientist, for all the love of knowledge and experiment, asked himself: Is a decapitated head still aware that it has separated from the body? So he asked his friends that when it was his time to be under the guillotine would they please count the number of times his eyes close and open after his head has seperated from his body.
And so his friends did. After the decapitation, the scientist's eyes squinted around 10-12 times, as told by his friends. The scientist, unfortunately, cannot put it on writing because he was busy being dead.
So what do you think? Did this prove something?
2007-09-27 16:28:08 · 14 answers · asked by sadmonkey 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think your question and story is a bunch of horseshit
2007-09-27 16:32:10 · answer #1 · answered by ansearcher@sbcglobal.net 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
even as the mind cells might want to technically nevertheless be useful for an rather short era, the entire severing of the spinal cord resolves in instantaneous unconsciousness. it is by way of an automatic procedure interior the mind stem that won't be able to be overridden by utilizing wide unsleeping idea. diverse checks were carried out on the heads of folk carried out interior the middle a lengthy time period, and none of them scientifically confirmed a wide unsleeping ideas. i'm blind to any present day checks that instruct something otherwise, nonetheless provided that decapitations are not in many circumstances used in executions, I doubt a lot study has been performed on the bumped off heads. only a short aside to the guy who says you are able to also communicate. even if you by some skill miraculously remained wide unsleeping, you communicate which include your lungs and throat which may now no longer be connected.
2016-10-20 03:44:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the person whose head is decapitated will be conscious and fully aware for several seconds after the decapitation.
They wouldn't lose consciousness until their brain runs out of oxygen.
2007-09-27 16:34:37 · answer #3 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The head lives for several seconds after decapitation, until the point when oxygen can no longer enter the brain and/or enough blood is lost. It all depends on the procedure of decapitation.
2007-09-27 16:32:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
In all likihood, the severed head is probably too much in a state of shock to fully be aware that it has been cut off!! In the split second that the head might realize this...like oh CRA...
its too late to worry about it !!
2007-09-27 16:34:23 · answer #5 · answered by zanthus 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but I heard a very similar story years ago.
I think the brain is still alive until the blood drains out.
Of course they can't speak because the vocal cords were severed.
2007-09-27 16:34:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Depend on how fast it was chopped off and only for about 1/2 of a second or less.
2007-09-27 16:32:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think the man was Lavoisier. I think it has proved something, an eerie one.
2007-09-27 16:34:15 · answer #8 · answered by nobody 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he should have done his study from the other side of the guillotine.
2007-09-27 16:36:39 · answer #9 · answered by slkrchck 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
If he could tell us that would certainly be a scientifict fact.
2007-09-27 16:32:43 · answer #10 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Morbid and useless question.
Now you are happy you had some attention?
2007-09-27 17:53:55 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋