People experience ‘new dimensions of reality' when dying: study
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>“Most doctors are taught and believe that the brain dies after about five or 10 minutes of oxygen deprivation,” Parnia said. “One of the key points that comes out of this study is that that is actually not true. Although the brain flatlines after the heart stops, and that happens within seconds, it doesn't mean that it's permanently damaged and [has] died. It's just hibernating. What we were able to show is that actually, the brain can respond and restore function again, even after an hour later, which opens up a whole window of opportunity for doctors to start new treatments.”
There's a paper from 2007 called "Brain Death - Too Flawed to Endure, Too Ingrained to Abandon" that gives a more sober overview of facts and beliefs around brain death in medicine.
We expend a lot of making sense of sensory inputs, but what if most of that processing power is freed up? Perhaps this is related to how some mediation practitioners claim to have clearer focus of thought.
Death just got a bit longer haha.
Don't romanticize death and dying, it's not good for people on the edge of caring about living.
How do you know that?
Also, if you’re on desktop with a suitably configured Compose key, it’s actually simple to type (Compose I R for example), no need for copy&paste.
I doubt it. I'm pretty sure whatever reality photons, black holes, etc are in, it's not really mine, except where it happens to slightly intersect with mine so I can detect it.
(Edits to make my argument a bit less snarky.)
Where did you learn all of these things anyways, and which meaning of the word real are you working with?
String theory on the other hand operates at energy levels so small that it's completely inaccessible to us. A collider would have to be the size of the galaxy to probe the energy levels we're discussing. At the energy levels that govern on our lives and environment, quantum field theory doesn't require string theory to explain what's going on, and we would require godlike powers to approach testing it. This makes it very unreal. Not entirely unreal, and still important for understanding the corner cases, but it is about as ephemeral as it can get.
Something must not just be in principle falsifiable, but the means of falsifying it must be something we could possibly carry out. The more readily available those means, the more real a thing becomes.
''' Most doctors are taught and believe that the brain dies after about five or 10 minutes of oxygen deprivation,” Parnia said. “One of the key points that comes out of this study is that that is actually not true. Although the brain flatlines after the heart stops, and that happens within seconds, it doesn't mean that it's permanently damaged and [has] died. It's just hibernating. What we were able to show is that actually, the brain can respond and restore function again, even after an hour later, which opens up a whole window of opportunity for doctors to start new treatments. '''
quite remarkable.
That sounds rather disturbing TBH. I was hoping that when you're done, you are done.
One example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/christine-ti...
I wonder what the evolutionary advantage of these things is?
Not that I see how a head trip while dying can be any part of this process, just saying that "pass on your genes" is not all there is to genes.
Nothing. It’s something breaking and having arbitrary consequences.
But not in the immediate short term of failing organs. Those are unhandled exception errors
There’s no gameplan for the headless chicken.
For example: sharks being incapacitated when they’re flipped upside down, or any number of genetic diseases. It looks more like something that nature hasn’t optimized yet rather than something beneficial to the species.