I think the right way to have phrased this would be to call it "Extremely slow brain activity that it appears to be non existent in the traditional sense". Sinc

I think the right way to have phrased this would be to call it "Extremely slow brain activity that it appears to be non existent in the traditional sense". Since the body is cooled down, all chemical reactions including those that take place in the brain are slowed down to a point where our traditional methods of looking at it suggest no activity. When it is warmed up, it should start functioning as usual. (This is what I understood from the article) It would be interesting to see if the person's (who was brought back to life) notion of time was skewed. Perhaps he would feel like only a few minutes had passed, while in actuality he would have been operated on for a few hours. (Which asks the bigger question, of if our internal notion of time is based on the speed on chemical reactions in our brain/body)