Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
The nurse was fishy since the sleepwalk test, but who would have known she'd have no qualms having a dig into someone's brain? (I'll admit, the medical part of myself is curious as to what happenes when you do that...) I thought this was the type of show that would hold all the mysteries till the very end, but instead they cleared up most, if not all, the questions, leaving us with a straight action finale, which isn't unwelcome after 11 episodes of mind scrambling.

I thought they said Shogun would die when Taku awoke, but that didn't happen immediately like I expected. I'm thinking if the current Shogun is ironically being kept alive by Taku's illusion.

Oh, and next episode: Neo vs Mr. Smith!!
Regarding the medical part for the "experiment" she was conducting, it is said that the brain doesn't have any pain nerves. That asumption is strange when you can have headaches but whatever.
My guess would be that you could theoritecally remove functions gradually while keeping the patient aware till you remove their awareness of course.
But the very limiting factor is that any part you remove will create a huge bleeding that will stop the experiment very quickly.