The Glasgow Coma Scale

on what it got right without knowing it In 1974, two doctors published a fourteen-line paper introducing a simple bedside scoring system for unconscious patients. They called it the Glasgow Coma Scale. It measured three things — whether patients opened their eyes, whether they spoke, whether they moved — assigned numbers to each, and added them up. The paper contained no theory of consciousness. No philosophy, no neuroscience, no claims about what awareness actually is. It was a […]

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