This is nitpicking, but I’m from San Diego and there are two big universities in the town: University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and University of San Diego (USD). You used the two names interchangeably in this article.

Might be apocryphal, but I read once of a scientist who wanted to know more about consciousness and was interested in what happens to people after they are executed by guillotine. He told someone who was to be executed to blink his eyes as long as he was able after his head was severed, to see if consciousness…

Phiosopher Brian Leiter’s take on the whole thing: