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Yes. Guessing up to one minute, maybe longer. NYC_SKP May 2013 #1

I can't speak for the story, but consciousness depends on blood (with its oxygen and nutrients) arcane1 May 2013 #2

NYC_SKP

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1. Yes. Guessing up to one minute, maybe longer.

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Tue May 7, 2013, 10:55 PM

May 2013

Really depends upon the injury.

If the injury was such that blood was prevented somehow from escaping quickly, the brain might function longer.

There's no reason to think that, cleanly severed, the brain wouldn't still see, taste, hear, and think.

What a horrible thought.

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2. I can't speak for the story, but consciousness depends on blood (with its oxygen and nutrients)

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Tue May 7, 2013, 11:05 PM

May 2013

A severed head could, briefly, exist with a rapidly-fading awareness. The rest is interpreted by the witness, based on subjective interpretation of the failing facial expressions.

I imagine it's similar to Air Force pilots who have to ride in a centrifuge until they pass out, except you pass out and never return. It would be consciousness as experienced when one stands up too quickly