RE: Today Show Sybill Shepherd and NDEs
March 18, 2015 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2015 at 9:41 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
No measurable brain activity occurs after 20 to 30 seconds of cardiac arrest, yet a small percentage of people report seeing and hearing things that actually occurred up to 3 minutes after cardiac arrest. The fact that some people can have complex cognitive functioning when cerebral activity is absent should at least give pause to those that think electro-chemical reactions are solely responsible for consciousness.
This comes from the most recent large scale study of NDEs:
AWARE Study 2014
The article mentions nothing about afterlife or consciousness surviving death, so I'm not going to say that it implies something it doesn't say. What the article does suggest is that NDE phenomena defy all mind-brain identity theories of consciousness. They are not even remotely comparable to delusions or hallucinations in terms of their clarity, complexity, and profound life-altering after effects.
This comes from the most recent large scale study of NDEs:
AWARE Study 2014
The article mentions nothing about afterlife or consciousness surviving death, so I'm not going to say that it implies something it doesn't say. What the article does suggest is that NDE phenomena defy all mind-brain identity theories of consciousness. They are not even remotely comparable to delusions or hallucinations in terms of their clarity, complexity, and profound life-altering after effects.
