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If someone cut your brain out would you still be thinking for a few seconds before death?
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There is at least some anecdotal evidence that in the event of beheading, consciousness sometimes remains for several seconds before exsanguination and lack of oxygen cause the brain (or perhaps the mind) to lapse into insensibility.

 In  "A History of the Guillotine" (B&N, 1993) author Alister Kershaw describes an informal experiment carried out by French physician Dr. Gabriel Beaurieux in 1905. After attending the guillotine execution of a convicted murder named Languille, Dr. Beaurieux wrote:

"the eyelids and lips ... worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds."
Dr. Beaurieux lifted the detached head by its ears, (Languille had had his head shaved) called out his name and said that Languille's eyelids "slowly lifted up, without any spasmodic contraction" and that "his pupils focused themselves". This reaction was observed twice, but the third time Beaurieux spoke, he got no response.

There is also an account, perhaps apocryphal, that after her beheading, the executioner of Charlotte Corday (she who murdered Marat) observed her eyes blinking and moving to look at him, and her mouth attempting to form words.