Hypnotic experiments with 'time sense'
Dr. Bernard Aaronson
Bureau of Research in Neuropsychology & Psychiatry
Princeton, New Jersey

No Future:  loss of identity
            profound euphoric mystical sensation
            "boundless immanent present"

Expanded Future:  cancelled fear of death
                  serene clamness & happiness

No Present:  [the most disturbing]
             depression, almost schizophrenic behavior

No Past:  drowsiness, memory loss, speech difficulty
          vague sense of meaninglessness

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(Item from the Artificial Intelligence issue of "Daedalus")

Sentience Quotient:

SQ = I/M 

   I = information processing rate (bits/sec)
   M = mass of brain (kg)
  SQ = "sentience quotient"

-70 < SQ < 50

-70 = lower astrophysical limit    }physical limits on SQ
 50 = upper quantum limit          }for neurons

human neuron   SQ = 13
Apple II       SQ = 5
Cray I         SQ = 9

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