Friday 11 March 2022

NDE Caught on Camera

 
One of the things that have up until now been a totally subjective experience is the near-death experience, NDE. However this has just changed, according to some neuroscientists from Vancouver, Canada and Tartu, Estonia. This breakthrough happened quite by chance. They were carrying out an electroencephalogram on a patient who suffered from epilepsy. They had the eighty-seven year old male fitted up to the EEG with an array of electrodes on his head, measuring his brainwaves. However, during this routine procedure, the patient suffered a heart attack and died. Leaving aside the tragedy, this gave the doctors a unique opportunity, one that makes this story sound like a real life version of the film Flatliners, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/04/flatliners-2017.html. What they discovered was extraordinary. The man's brain continued to function for thirty seconds after a cardiac arrest and in those seconds it went through the same activity it would when dreaming or recalling memories. This matches very much some rat studies done a few years earlier, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/10/new-research-on-brain-at-death.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/03/brain-keeps-working-after-death.html. On a practical clinical level, it raises questions about when death actually occurs, because it is becoming an increasingly fuzzy line. This has implications for issues like organ donation. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60495730. The lead publisher of the study, Dr Ajmal Zemmar, said: "This was actually totally by chance. We did not plan to do this experiment or record these signals... This could possibly be a last recall of memories that we've experienced in life, and they replay through our brain in the last seconds before we die... If I were to jump to the philosophical realm, I would speculate that if the brain did a flashback, it would probably like to remind you of good things, rather than the bad things... I think there's something mystical and spiritual about this whole near-death experience." That' ironic because, of course, the skeptics will interpret this discovery as the evidence they have been looking for, proof that the NDE can be explained in purely materialistic terms; a wanton chemical orgy that is succeeded immediately by total and permanent annihilation. Whether this is true or not will depend on further studies and whether the human brain is capable of the feats necessary, in terms of organized thought, that could reproduce the entire NDE phenomenon. Dr Zemmar has tried a few times since his impromptu data, which he collected a while ago in 2016; but has so far not reproduced them.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/10/proof-of-life-after-death.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-from-dead.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/01/bigelow-and-afterlife.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-afterlife-second-reply-to-stefan.html.

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