highwaystar101 said:
In the paper they published about this, they justified only asking six questions as an more than sufficiently accurate result. Essentially what they had to do was pass an augmented Turing test, and six complex questions is sufficient enough to prove that you're communicating with a human. In all fairness, if they were wrong about their hypothesis the results for each question should have been null (neither yes or no). |
Assuming the answers are clear 'yes' or 'no', which I very much doubt. There's a lot of factors in play here when analyzing MRI scans. First the neurological lag from input to increased blood flow in a certain part of the brain, also the response could be difficult to interpret - subjecitive evaluation of the results, like "hmm is that really a significant increase in blood flow" etc.
I am amazed that there's only 6 questions recorded in 3 years of research of this patient.
I'm very sceptical. And I hope it's false, it would be terrible if there's people in what looks to be a vegetative state, but in fact being aware of stuff but unable to tell or do anything lol.
