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In article <7711@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>Anyway, I don't think our intuitions in these areas are very
>reliable.  For instance, it it really intuitive that a number
>of neurons could be killed without much, if any, noticeable
>effect?  Suppose someone's neurons stopped working, one by one.
>What happens?  Does their consciousness fade, blink out, or
>what?  

Curiously, this is a question we can essay a pretty good guess at.  The
answer would seem to be that it disappears in strange and wonderful ways;
and the actual point of disappearance is not easy to mark.

I recommend the book, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (sorry, the
author's name escapes me).  This deals with real life examples of the
results of brain damage.  The amazing thing is that people can lose whole
chunks of their mental life, and not even know that they are missing
anything.