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RE: Energy created nor destroyed.
August 9, 2015 at 10:37 am
Have I been quoting Dawkins anywhere here?
The opinion of a "leading expert" in any field of study isn't worth much on its own. People, even very intelligent people, can be wrong or can let their enthusiasm carry them away. Look at Linus Pauling, for instance.
We're all good at linking to journals. In my case, since I have less than 200 MB left on my monthly data plan and can't be bothered to look at every one of those articles, could you please quote one peer reviewed study that proves that consciousness occurs OUTSIDE of a brain? Or a study that proved that NDEs do?
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RE: Energy created nor destroyed.
August 9, 2015 at 12:14 pm
(August 8, 2015 at 4:19 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: In fact there are plenty of cases where people were conscious after being declared clinically dead (brain death being one of the criteria), Commonly shown by being able to describe events that took place in an emergency / operating room during the period in which they were clinically dead.
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You really do talk right out of your ass. don't you?!? No one recovers from brain death you moron.
Brain death.
"Brain death is loss of function of the entire cerebrum and brain stem, resulting in coma, no spontaneous respiration, and loss of all brain stem reflexes. Spinal reflexes, including deep tendon, plantar flexion, and withdrawal reflexes, may remain.
Recovery does not occur."
(emphasis is mine)
Source
Brain death is permanent and irreversible Huggies. Of course, if you ever actually read up on what you claim you'd know that.
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RE: Energy created nor destroyed.
August 9, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Yes, Huggy, one quote from an NDE obsessed nutjob changes my mind completely.
You've come nowhere near demonstrating that consciousness can exist outside of a brain.
And, as has been pointed out, had she been actually brain dead, she would be plain dead.
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RE: Energy created nor destroyed.
August 9, 2015 at 2:44 pm
Take a human brain. Dice it. Run the bits through a sieve. Dry the resultant mush, douse it with petrol and light it.
If you can detect consciousness from the ashes, I'll start supporting the notion that a DEAD brain can function.
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RE: Energy created nor destroyed.
August 9, 2015 at 4:01 pm
Huggy, your first link says the parents asked for a second opinion and faint brain activity was detected = not brain dead.
Your second link says that the girl's brain activity started up again = not brain dead.
Brain death is permanent. Death necessarily occurs. If they recover, it means they weren't brain dead.
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RE: Energy created nor destroyed.
August 9, 2015 at 4:05 pm
From the article in Huggy's first link:
'In a statement, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust said: "The injury to Steven's brain was extremely critical and several CT scans of the head showed almost irreversible damage." ' [emphasis mine]
'...almost irreversible damage' is equivalent to 'reversible damage'.
I'm not going to research the second one, as I wouldn't believe the Daily Mail if they told me that water is wet.
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