Brain keeps processing language under anesthesia, study finds

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim under review, from ScienceDaily on October fifteenth, twenty twenty-six: even under general anesthesia, the human brain can still analyze language and predict what comes next in a story.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo you are fully knocked out, and your brain is still sitting up in bed guessing the ending. I love it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt never clocks off, Hank, and that is how the end begins.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Baylor researchers say it can also recognize different types of words. That is the finding, and it is all the finding says.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDifferent types of words. It is grading the surgeon's grammar and nobody told him.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGrading.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRed pen, Hank. Dangling modifiers everywhere.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe source calls it a surprising discovery that challenges what we know about consciousness.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVerdict on the Bonk-o-Meter: Solidly Bonkers, because it is real, and my own brain has not predicted anything since two thousand nine.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorYour brain never stood a chance against a surgeon with that many dangling modifiers, mate.