THE BLINKING LAVOISIER EXPERIMENT

Can you keep blinking after your head is cut off? (No! Yes. Maybe?)
Not sure? Okay, let’s read the story about the Famous Chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier to feed those curiosity. Okay, Go on.

In 1794 during the Reign Of Terror following the French Revolution, a French chemist, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, promised that he would blink for as long as possible when he was beheaded. He was sentenced to death by guillotine due to his discoveries which include Hydrogen and helping to implement the metric system. As a scientist he was naturally curious about what happens to the human head once it was removed from the torso. As an experiment he said that he would try to blink for as long as he could when his head was cut off. There were some reports that he blinked for up to 30 seconds.

This was perhaps the earliest study conducted into the brains independent function. It seemed to give the result that the brain does continue to work even though it is no longer attached to the rest of the body. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier would have discovered that in the harshest of ways.

Whether or not a severed head can retain consciousness, the story about Lavoisier must be false. He was one of 28 people who were executed at that time, and the efficient executioner and his team took 35 minutes to do all of them.

There would have been no time to perform any such observation, and the only people who would have been in a position to do the observation would have been the executioners.

There is no substantiated evidence that Lavoisier’s head was observed after it was cut off.
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