Spook: Chapter 6

5 Comments
1] The smallest infant to survive at birth weighted ten ounces and had a volume of three-tenths of a quart.
2] All the sheep Hollander tested showed a temporary weight gain at death.
3] Gerry Nahum is a professor at the Duke University School of Medicine who works in an atmospheric old builing called Baker House.
4] Theorists like Nahum think of the consciousness as information content.
5] Information to a quantum physicist has an acception energy equivalent.

4 Questions
1] How do you measure the volume of a premature baby?
2] How do you weigh a soul?
3] How many bits are there in a consciousness?
4] When we look at a consciousness, what is embodied in it?

3 Vocabulary
1] Homeopathist: a person who practices or favors in homeopathy.
2] Rendered: to submit or present, as for consideration, approval or payment.
3] Chastised: to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.

2 Literary Terms
1] "It's a long book, but lightweight, as light as a soul, for it exists only in cyberspace.." -Simile.
2] "I think that at the moment of death that little window opens up." -Metaphor.

1 Overview Sentence
Many scientists have tried to figure out how many bits are in a consciousness and how to weigh it.