My brain is currently sending electro-chemical impulses to my fingers, which are striking specific keys on my keyboard. Those keys are, in turn, sending electrical impulses to my computer, which sends them to a server on which this forum is hosted.
The type you are reading exists in physical form as a series of magnetically-encoded analogues to zeros and ones. It exists in physical form as a pattern of light and dark pixels on your screen. And it originated in physical form in my physical brain, which is a meat-computer holding approximately the same amount of information as all the electronic computers in the world combined. Because the meat-computer which generated these text characters is far more complex than the Internet - is, in fact, more complex than anything else we have so far encountered in the Universe - it not only holds much of the information which I have assimilated during my lifetime, it also gives rise to the emergent property we know as "consciousness."
NDEs are not what you keep claiming they are. When our brains are shutting down and near death, there are a number of physical activities occurring which are quite unusual in day-to-day life. These activities include oxygen deprivation; endorphin-induced euphoria; noradrenaline production; and faulty sensory information.
History tells the same story over and over: People form irrational explanations for unknown phenomena, driven by our brains' evolutionarily-programmed need to know. Later, science develops the tools to explore these phenomena in detail, eventually discovering the actual explanation. This has happened over and over again, and every single time, the explanation has tuned out to be natural. Not once has a mysterious phenomenon been studied rigorously and turned out to have a supernatural cause.
Therefore, the most rational and probable explanation for any unknown phenomenon is likely to be natural rather than supernatural. We're in the midst of studying NDEs, and so far all the explanations are - wait for it - natural.
How Near-death Experiences Work
The type you are reading exists in physical form as a series of magnetically-encoded analogues to zeros and ones. It exists in physical form as a pattern of light and dark pixels on your screen. And it originated in physical form in my physical brain, which is a meat-computer holding approximately the same amount of information as all the electronic computers in the world combined. Because the meat-computer which generated these text characters is far more complex than the Internet - is, in fact, more complex than anything else we have so far encountered in the Universe - it not only holds much of the information which I have assimilated during my lifetime, it also gives rise to the emergent property we know as "consciousness."
NDEs are not what you keep claiming they are. When our brains are shutting down and near death, there are a number of physical activities occurring which are quite unusual in day-to-day life. These activities include oxygen deprivation; endorphin-induced euphoria; noradrenaline production; and faulty sensory information.
History tells the same story over and over: People form irrational explanations for unknown phenomena, driven by our brains' evolutionarily-programmed need to know. Later, science develops the tools to explore these phenomena in detail, eventually discovering the actual explanation. This has happened over and over again, and every single time, the explanation has tuned out to be natural. Not once has a mysterious phenomenon been studied rigorously and turned out to have a supernatural cause.
Therefore, the most rational and probable explanation for any unknown phenomenon is likely to be natural rather than supernatural. We're in the midst of studying NDEs, and so far all the explanations are - wait for it - natural.
How Near-death Experiences Work