Today Show Sybill Shepherd and NDEs

[Angrboda]

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.

Small percentage is right. Out of 2060 interviewed, only 2 cardiac arrest patients had such recall, and only one of those two was verified for accuracy.

That's 0.1% And seeing as the data on flatlining is based on dogs and a handful of cases, I think you're exaggerating the meaning of this study. It does not appear that they measured cortical activity in any of the CA patients studied, so it's anybody's guess what cortical activity was present in those two cases.

I'm intrigued by the study, but I think you've blown things out of proportion.

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The notion that NDEs mean anything requires a lot of metaphysical scaffolding which just isn't there. So you end up with a curious circular logic in which the metaphysical postulates support the interpretation of the NDE itself, which in turn validates the metaphysical postulates upon which the interpretation originally rested. I'm not going to open up another thread on consciousness, but in order for any of this to make sense, you have to believe in certain things about the nature of consciousness which are unproven, and for which there is a strong circumstantial case against them being true.