Drakodan Posted:

Pretty much. The fact that it was alive and conscious certainly validates something, though. It still had its consciousness after its head was removed. I don’t think you can compare headless chicken to this, since that’s just motor functions gone wild.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding the experiment. But if you take a head, and attach it to a different body, so long as the ‘host’ body can keep the head alive for a while I’d expect it to continue functioning as a head (and hence by the fact that the head contains the brain, be conscious).

If you removed a monkey’s head, and the rest of its body continued responding to anything more than basic reflex responses (or the headless chicken style motor functions) then it’d be odd, but I was reading this as “monkey’s head continues consciousness for a while, even when attached to a different body”, not “monkey’s body continues consciousness without a head”.