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TheOtherDave comments on Link - total body transplant - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Dr_Manhattan 14 January 2011 04:41AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 January 2011 09:25:19PM 1 point [-]

My problem with "broken" in this context is that it fails to distinguish between a brain that fails to function as intended in some important capacity -- for example, one that is incapable of identifying its person's wife -- and one that fails to function as intended in any capacity at all.

I guess I can go with "inanimate," if you want (since you say "ceases to be animate"). It seems weird to fail to distinguish between a corpse and a statue, but not unbearably weird.

Comment author: icebrand 14 January 2011 09:52:31PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps a different prefix would make it more clear that it is a formerly animate object, or between stages of being animate. E.g. postanimate or transanimate.

Comment author: sfb 20 January 2011 01:23:07AM 0 points [-]

More optimistically, pre-reanimated.