Re: dhw--Epistemological Framework (Humans)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 15, 2011, 01:24 (5061 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> 3)If a person experiences a NDE/OBE, during a time that the 'receiver' is 'disconnected' from the brain, can you confirm that the 'receiver' is in fact altogether inactive, or can you only infer that there is no data transfer between 'receiver' and brain, and nothing being written to the hard drive of the brain.-
A thorough review of the NDE/OOB literature supports your statement completely. No one knows exactly what is happeneing, but it is happening. Even if the EEG is 'flatlined' there is possibly some way for the person who is in the apparently nonreceiving state to receive informataion from the hubbub around him. What is occurring over and over again from hospice studies, is new info which the patient has received, could not have been picked up by the patient in the mental state that patient is in. So how did he get it in the NDE or the OOB. I'm speaking of events like death of a relative or friend, and not spoken of in the hospice. Where is the consciousness in an NDE, or in a patient whose eyes are covered, yet can describe the surgical room's activites? The Pam Reynolds case in "Light & Death", by Sabom is a prime example of this:
Deeply hypothermic, EEG flat, ears covered by a headset making timed sounds during brain surgery. Yet she picked up many details. My advice to all on this website is to review that literature.