Adrian Owen is the largest Canadian scientist, neurophysiologist, who has devoted more than 30 years of his life to studying the processes occurring in the brain of people in a borderline state. His bold experiments made a breakthrough in understanding these processes. Owen's research was talked about on television and radio, in print and on the Internet, television documentaries and radio broadcasts were created about them. In 2019, Adrian Owen was awarded the Order of the British Commonwealth for his contribution to the development of neuroscience. Until recently, there was an opinion in the scientific community that the brain of a person in a vegetative state is practically dead. There has been much discussion about the wisdom of connecting a "living corpse" to life support systems when there is no hope of brain repair. But once a young Canadian scientist allowed himself to doubt that the so-called people "vegetables" do not feel anything and do not realize what is happening to them and around them. What if a soul in the dungeon of a helpless body suffers, freezes in horror, unable to communicate with the outside world?