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Trapped Inside Your Mind - Life Beyond The Scientific Definition Of ‘Consciousness'
“Imagine you wake up, locked inside a box,” says Adrian Owen. “It’s only just big enough to hold your body but sufficiently small that you can’t move. It’s a perfect fit, down to every last one of your fingers and toes. It’s a strange box because you can listen to absolutely everything going on around you, yet your voice cannot be heard. In fact, the box fits so tightly around your face and lips that you can’t speak, or make a noise. Although you can see everything going on around the box, the world outside is oblivious to what’s going on inside.”
The opening paragraph of this eye-opening longread on Mosaic Science reads like a thriller. And then you realise it is reality. This report tries to uncover some of the mysteries surrounding the minds of people in a "vegetative state", who are "are awake yet unaware".
The author does a great job at approaching this sensitive subject with care for patients, families and doctors. The entire piece tries to show the difficulties medics face in detecting the extent to which patients are conscious, if at all. It is one of those timeless pieces that you read on a quiet weekend, feeling that you have gained an insight into a world quite literally unknown.
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