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commongentile
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Date: October 07, 2021 10:17PM
Cold-Dodger Wrote:
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> If we can show that the human brain is the engine
> of human perception, then wouldn’t that show
> that all these anecdotes are just anecdotes. The
> engine of perception didn’t go anywhere when a
> person has a near death experience: it’s right
> there in the skull of the person we prematurely
> thought was a corpse. If it’s nearly dead but
> not quite, then it may still be perceiving on some
> level because it’s still alive, but it is dying,
> so what it experiences is gonna be a hell of a
> trip if it pulls through — don’t you think?
> Your brain isn’t necessarily worried about
> what’s real when it’s fighting to distribute
> oxygen and energy just well enough to survive
> brain death, and your neurons still only know how
> to do the things they’re genetically wired to
> do.
Some of the attempts to understand near death experiences in terms of "conventional" science are mentioned in this overview article about near death experiences:
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/near-death-experience