RE: Split Brain Experiment and the Soul
May 27, 2010 at 10:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2010 at 10:55 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
1- i think we really need agree on a useful definition for identity.
2- I think 'it' rests solely in the material. I know you believe that our memory, thoughts, mental processes, whatever may become separate from our nervous system and we disagree here. Could you make your question clearer for me please, or try to explain its meaning or where you are going with this question.
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4- i'll be checking out your source but superficially I see a source that profits from providing a confirmation bias.
your source for someone who was accused of 'brain death' who came back alive and was not misdiagnosed seems to be more of an example of 'the out of body experience' than an example of a 'dead person' coming back to life. I find the procedure performed by Dr. Michael Sabom as your example of 'brain death' to be contradictory since doctors, according to your source, consider the procedure "allowed Pam's aneurysm to be excised with a reasonable chance of success."
"his operation, nicknamed "standstill" by the doctors who perform it, required that Pam's body temperature be lowered to 60 degrees, her heartbeat and breathing stopped, her brain waves flattened, and the blood drained from her head. In everyday terms, she was put to death. "
again i see this as an exaggeration. I'm pretty sure that if you drain all the blood out of your head, you will suffer significant brain damage.
finally if you click at the link they provide to the standstill procedure known as hypothermic cardiac arrest, you aren't directed to a reputable scientific or medical source; instead you're directed to another dramatized story about the procedure written in the New York Times in 1990. This doesn't look good for your source's credibility at all... sorry
2- I think 'it' rests solely in the material. I know you believe that our memory, thoughts, mental processes, whatever may become separate from our nervous system and we disagree here. Could you make your question clearer for me please, or try to explain its meaning or where you are going with this question.
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4- i'll be checking out your source but superficially I see a source that profits from providing a confirmation bias.
your source for someone who was accused of 'brain death' who came back alive and was not misdiagnosed seems to be more of an example of 'the out of body experience' than an example of a 'dead person' coming back to life. I find the procedure performed by Dr. Michael Sabom as your example of 'brain death' to be contradictory since doctors, according to your source, consider the procedure "allowed Pam's aneurysm to be excised with a reasonable chance of success."
"his operation, nicknamed "standstill" by the doctors who perform it, required that Pam's body temperature be lowered to 60 degrees, her heartbeat and breathing stopped, her brain waves flattened, and the blood drained from her head. In everyday terms, she was put to death. "
again i see this as an exaggeration. I'm pretty sure that if you drain all the blood out of your head, you will suffer significant brain damage.
finally if you click at the link they provide to the standstill procedure known as hypothermic cardiac arrest, you aren't directed to a reputable scientific or medical source; instead you're directed to another dramatized story about the procedure written in the New York Times in 1990. This doesn't look good for your source's credibility at all... sorry
