Nope. Mind is not a separate entity. It is an emergent property of the brain - the result of all the activity and connectivity of all those billions of neurons - one of the two reasons those neurons exist, the other being to control the functions of the body. When they stop working, every other organ stops, waiting for instructions.Regarding your question, do you think it possible that the mind 'resides' in the brain and grows/develops there, but can also exist outside the brain too when there is no longer a brain? — Beverley
Of course, billions of people do believe those stories, or claim to. You'd never be lonely if you chose that option.I do not really know what I believe about this at the moment. — Beverley
They can see and hear, if the liver or kidneys are not functioning and maybe while the heart is stopped, but can still be restarted. That's what generally happens in these near-death experiences.I mean, when the brain has stopped functioning, if people are still seeing/hearing things — Beverley
If you don't find the head cut off, you can't always be sure someone's deadGordon Giesbrecht, a hypothermia expert at the University of Manitoba, told CTV News Channel that it is "very difficult to predict" whether resuscitation attempts will be successful or not.
It emanates from the activities of matter. It comes from the burning of the sun's gases in the form of light and heat. But, although we measure units of heat for our own convenience, we cannot discern discrete packets of heat that have names and personalities. Without matter, what would form a barrier between minds? So, all right, if energy emanates from brain activity, it must radiate outward continuously, along with body heat, evaporated fluid and scent, to mingle with all the other energy.After all, we accept that energy is all around us, and yet it does not seem to 'reside' anywhere specifically since it is not made of matter. — Beverley
Ideas are free; people are always eager to share them. It's facts you have to work for.I am open to hearing other ideas though. — Beverley
That is not the case. The brain, as I mentioned just a few minutes ago, keeps functioning for minutes and in some very rare instances, even hours, when the blood supply is cut off. (This is the idea behind cryogenics.)when a person is in cardiac arrest, the brain is no longer functioning — Beverley
Dr Sam Parnia and his team seem convinced that the patients met the criteria for clinical death and would not have come back to life without their medical intervention. — Truth Seeker
The controlled research settings for RED studies are people who have undergone a cardiac arrest. This potentially reversible clinical death state provides the best model to research RED.1 In clinical death, body and brain stem reflexes have vanished and within 15 seconds, the electroencephalogram (EEG) is flat-lined. If lifesaving techniques are not successful to revert this life-threatening situation, death is usually irreversible within five to ten minutes.2 In this context, RED is defined as “a specific cognitive and emotional experience that occurs during a period of loss of consciousness in relation to a life-threatening event, including cardiac arrest”.1
According to Van Lommel,2 the brain has an interface function and not a producing one. The brain works as transceiver sending information captured by the sense organs to consciousness, and receiving information from consciousness. For Van Lommel, consciousness is a non-local field as compared to an electromagnetic wave coded with information, which requires a gadget to decode it such as a smartphone, a radio or a TV set. These devices can be destroyed but not the information itself and its source. Similarly, the death of the body would not imply the end of consciousness.
I wonder where this free-floating consciousness gets its information. Do we each have one? How do 8 billion (assuming other species have none, which is a long stretch to accept) consciousnesses keep their identity separate and how do they each know to which receptor they're supposed to convey information? Or is it one big nebula of consciousness transmitting impersonally to the world? Is all the information in the universe available to the meta-consciousness? If so, why are some of us better informed than others? Is it down to the innate quality of our equipment, and is that equipment upgraded through education?and receiving information from consciousness.
From that quote, confusing. When I have time to read the documentation for his research, I'll know whether he explains the mechanism.Is Van Lommel correct or incorrect? — Truth Seeker
I don't blame them for being wishful thinkers. — Truth Seeker
Would I not behave like them if I had their genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences? — Truth Seeker
Of course - you cannot be otherwise.I am agnostic about blaming and praising anyone. — Truth Seeker
Well then, apparently, it's "inevitable" for me to "praise or blame" ... :mask:I realised that we are all doing inevitable things and are not worthy of praise or blame. — Truth Seeker
Calvinists, for instance, (seem to) believe that some are pre-determined to be "damned" or "saved".No one deserves to go to heaven or hell because no one has free will. — Truth Seeker
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