Science opens up the mind.....

[highwaystar101]

Slimebeast said:

Rath said:

Slimebeast said:
So how did they know a guy in a vegetative state imagined a tennis scene and roaming streets? lol

Worthless article which doesn't even explain the story properly.

Because they told him to.

They're saying he isn't vegetative but 'trapped' in his body.

Yes, I understand they told him to. But how did they measure it?

As I understand it, the question was "is Alex your dad" and to confirm that they told him to think of tennis as a 'yes' (and traffic as a "no"). But how did they measure he actually thought of a tennis scene? Can u see that on a MRI scan lol?

That is correct, I mean an MRI scan can not show that you are thinking of a certain scene; So the results may be flawed in that case.

But I don't doubt that they tried this on a patient in a persistent vegetative state, and if I could find out exactly how accurate the results they gained were, then I would produce an opinion on whether I think this is bs or not. If the man answered "yes, no" questions with 80%+ accuracy then I would be inclined to believe this story.

I'll check, I'm assuming the results of this would be published somewhere.

-edit-

Just read it in the OP, he got five out of six right. Which is plenty accurate enough, but I want to know why they used such a small sample size.