"If you need to be able to respond to a tiger jumping out of the bushes, you just want your eyes to pick up the movement," Gebel said. "That's all someone in a vegetative state is doing - following the light or responding to the sound."
Doesn't this sound an awful lot like the opposite of:
(12) "Persistent vegetative state" means a permanent and irreversible condition of unconsciousness in which there is:
(a) The absence of voluntary action or cognitive behavior of any kind.
(b) An inability to communicate or interact purposefully with the environment.
If it is a cognitive behavior to follow light or respond to sound, even if it is a reflex, doesn't that just show exactly that it IS a cognitive behavior of SOME kind?!! I'm so tired of the way Felos has parsed the words that we all clearly understand what they mean. Or am I just speaking a different language?