proof of Heaven

[Cato]

It makes a difference because he spent time in detail how his meningitis made this experience real not imagined based on his brain scan. The parts of the brain he says responsible for some people imagining this experience was gone on his scan so it had to be real, anyway that's what he says

Manowar

Still, with this 'he says' bullshit. I was being polite when I posted links to articles written on the subject by a neuroscientist. The following quote, from the first linked article, is not from Sam Harris. I say this knowing that Harris has been controversial in other matters.

[quote] As is obvious to you, this is truth by authority. Neurosurgeons, however, are rarely well-trained in brain function. Dr. Alexander cuts brains; he does not appear to study them. “There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind—my conscious, inner self—was alive and well. While the neurons of my cortex were stunned to complete inactivity by the bacteria that had attacked them, my brain-free consciousness ...” True, science cannot explain brain-free consciousness. Of course, science cannot explain consciousness anyway. In this case, however, it would be parsimonious to reject the whole idea of consciousness in the absence of brain activity. Either his brain was active when he had these dreams, or they are a confabulation of whatever took place in his state of minimally conscious coma. [/quote}