Panpsychism (Evolution)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 15:57 (4146 days ago) @ BBella

bbella: Is it possible that the machines ability to detect consciousness at this low level is just not powerful enough to detect it? Does it have to be that this persons conscious energy "left" his body or could it possibly be that his consciousness was at such a low level it could not be detected? And while in such a low state of consciousness, the subject dreamed? Because many people learn things unknown to them in the dreamstate all the time, even if they forget when they wake up. -As stated, Eben Alexander is a noted neurosurgeon who had a severe meningitis, so severe the bugs were absorbing so much oxygen and glucose any function of his cerebrum could not be detected by any of the standard medical methods. These methods detect celllular/neuronal activity. Whether that activity represents consciousness itself is part of the problem. It is not clear where consciousness resides. Alexander was unconscious for a week! Since being conscious and consciousness seem to be two different aspects of awareness, Alexander doesn't know where his consciousness went to allow it to experience heaven, a guardian angel, who turned out to be a dead sister he never met being adopted at an early age. The experience turned him from atheist to believer. I suggest reading his recently published book, Proof of Heaven.-This was an NDE, not a dream, for there was no functional tissue to dream with. Those folks who accept the reality of NDE and do research into it are generally convinced that this phenomenon is at a quantum level, where things can occur in two places at the same time, all the counterintuitive strangeness of quantum mechanics at work.