Concepts of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Monday, April 11, 2016, 15:53 (3147 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I think many so-called psychic experiences are as real as our everyday experiences, but whether the i-dentity actually lives on after the death of the body (not just the brain) is a question I simply don't feel able to answer.
> 
> DAVID: Brain dead is dead! The body just takes a little longer, because as breathing stops and anoxia sets in the other tissues take their slow time to die. This is why we can do transplants.
> 
> dhw: You will have to enlighten me on this. If the other tissues take their slow time to die, why does brain dead = dead? Didn't Eben Alexander have his NDE while in a coma? Doesn't that = brain dead, body alive?-Exactly correct. When the brain turns off (although still can be saved thru cardiac resuscitation) all vital functions stop. Heart stops: within i5 seconds, coma. Within four minutes brain death of the cortex (in adults), not the underlying structures. Breathing will stop shortly after because that control is deeper. Then slowly all the organs begin to die. This time interval is why resuscitation works, and also why we can harvest organs or transplant. Eben had a galloping encephalitis which meant his cortex was alive but non-functioning due to the raging inflammation.
> 
> dhw: However, I also acknowledge the possibility of a “scientific”, i.e. materialistic explanation, and even of a psychic explanation that does not necessitate the existence of the single mind you call God. And the older I get, the closer I come to the truth. So I'll just wait and see - or not see!-BBella's point is we have to try to analyze what facts we do have.