proof of Heaven

[Angrboda]

Or he may be over-invested in a view of localization of a particular function in the brain which is not fully reliable, proven or true. I just finished reading Damasio's Self Comes To Mind (well, half of it anyway), and practically every other page he's saying something on the order of, "the popular explanation among neuroscientists is that X occurs in Y, but this is bullshit...."

(ETA: Scanning the doctor's account, this is in fact the case, and Damasio specifically makes a case against views such as those of the doctor (e.g. the seeming emotional responses of hydraencephalitic patients); moreover, there's no way to validate a claim of complete absence of cortical function in a meningeal, comatose patient — how degraded does his global cortical functioning have to be to knock out potential sources of his experience? 75% ? 85% ? 99.99% ? 100% ? [and cortical function is a massive conglomerate of many, many brain functions]. Moreover, it's reasonable to assume he regained substantial cortical function prior to his eyes opening — you don't go from zero cortical function due to infection to substantive function in a matter of seconds; if his experiences occurred anytime in that window, his claim is bogus.)