The brain doesn’t shut off like a switch. It sands out. If you know what you are doing, you can use micro expressions and specific questions to extract information from the recently deceased.

So I found this article to be cute.

You can interview people in a coma in a somewhat different way with more neurobiological reactions to measure the answers. I figured this out as a teenager in my high school history class when I read how Marie Antoinette’s newly decollated head grimaced at being slapped.

But science has always been way behind me. Journalism is in the dark ages.

Ecological validity is key to aligning perceptions to reality…