My problem with “broken” in this context is that it fails to distinguish between a brain that fails to function as intended in some important capacity—for example, one that is incapable of identifying its person’s wife—and one that fails to function as intended in any capacity at all.
I guess I can go with “inanimate,” if you want (since you say “ceases to be animate”). It seems weird to fail to distinguish between a corpse and a statue, but not unbearably weird.
Perhaps a different prefix would make it more clear that it is a formerly animate object, or between stages of being animate. E.g. postanimate or transanimate.
My problem with “broken” in this context is that it fails to distinguish between a brain that fails to function as intended in some important capacity—for example, one that is incapable of identifying its person’s wife—and one that fails to function as intended in any capacity at all.
I guess I can go with “inanimate,” if you want (since you say “ceases to be animate”). It seems weird to fail to distinguish between a corpse and a statue, but not unbearably weird.
Perhaps a different prefix would make it more clear that it is a formerly animate object, or between stages of being animate. E.g. postanimate or transanimate.
More optimistically, pre-reanimated.