FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Shitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days agoHow stupid can you be?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
arrow-up110arrow-down1message-squareHow stupid can you be?FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Shitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareSterile_Technique@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoWe got ventilators. And ECMO. And parenteral nutrition. …I think we actually have everything we need to keep a person ‘alive’ with a completely, literally absent brain. At the very least, we could for sure pull it off with enough of a brain to manage things like smooth muscle contractility. So, to answer OP’s question, you can be all the way stupid. Like the literal fullest extent of a stretch of the word stupid.
We got ventilators. And ECMO. And parenteral nutrition.
…I think we actually have everything we need to keep a person ‘alive’ with a completely, literally absent brain.
At the very least, we could for sure pull it off with enough of a brain to manage things like smooth muscle contractility.
So, to answer OP’s question, you can be all the way stupid. Like the literal fullest extent of a stretch of the word stupid.