/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9920971

>Does that mean vision when the heart has stopped, or when you can detect no brain activity?

Both.

>How can we be sure that the person recollecting these visions are actually recollecting from the time the brain was supposedly dead, and that his memories aren't playing a trick on him?

Does it really matter? The patient saw a 12-digit number in a place she shouldn't have been able to see it in even if she was awake and well during her cardiac arrest.

To answer your question with another case, take for instance the case in the AWARE study. Here, a person had accurate perceptions 3-5 minutes into a cardiac arrest, and we know that the entire neo-cortex goes offline completely within 8-20s after onset of cardiac arrest.

Hence, there is no way for him to observe those things with the use of his brain and senses during that time.

>>9921024

>>a filthy dualist

There being an afterlife in light of NDEs does not imply dualism, my friend. Idealistic monism is the answer.