(April 29, 2019 at 9:38 am)madog Wrote:(April 29, 2019 at 9:16 am)Jehanne Wrote: If the mind is a product of the brain, then it is physically impossible for someone to have a genuine out-of-body experience whereby their "soul" leaves their body and witnesses events in the physical world that they cannot possibly see. Near-death experiences, if verified under controlled conditions, would be proof of an immaterial soul:
Sam Parnia -- AWAreness during REsuscitation (AWARE) study
Mmmm ... no ... in my opinion ... lots of assumptions being made
Something like a magnet could be seen as having woo before we understood the physical phenomena ....
Apples & Oranges. Magnetism was observed centuries before Faraday & Maxwell (and, later on, Einstein & Feynman) developed the physical models of it. In the case of NDEs, such have not even been observed, unlike magnetism.