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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by mhitza on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:16AM (#31059388)
"Evidence". The measured activity was the same as of a dream state. "Evidence" that life is a dream?!
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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by arcticbull on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:30AM (#31059442)
More likely evidence your brain produces a ton of DMT when you’re about to kick the bucket and you go out in one heck of a psychedelic drug trip. [1]

[1] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-21660-002

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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by mhitza on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:26AM (#31059614)
> The final section explores whether NDE and DMT experiences have a sufficient degree of phenomenological similarity to justify a causal role for DMT in the production of NDEs and concludes that such similarity is lacking.

From me reading the abstract, doesn't seem like it. But I haven't read the paper, and don't know what "phenomenological similarity" is either.

It would be cool to think that we could trick our brains to do that on demand, without having to experience a near death situation!

I can already imagine the headlines, "Shamans hate him! Learn this one trick how you can too..."

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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by mettamage on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:52AM (#31059516)
Why are we evolved to do this?
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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by robinduckett on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:11AM (#31059572)
Probably just in case the thing that would have made us die doesn't actually make us die so we don't fully process the horrifically traumatic thing that caused us to almost die
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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by xcambar on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:31AM (#31059628)
In case you end up not dying, it makes it memorable enough so that you won't reiterate the action causing you to almost die.

"Oh sh*t, that was traumatic. I'll never eat these gorgeous little berries if they caused that".

On the other hand... "maybe if I take just a bit less, I won't almost die but just have a great trip". Hence, psychedelics.

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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by zikduruqe on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:50AM (#31059945)
Stoned Ape Theory?

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/stoned-ape-...

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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by mrleinad on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:49AM (#31060789)
Bill Hicks: https://youtu.be/Sb5EjflughU?t=147
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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by jason0597 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:50PM (#31063820)
I don't think that would apply if you were e.g. a Greek soldier and you were impaled by Persian warriors
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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by xcambar on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:33PM (#31064691)
Certainly but it would only invalidate my point if I had stated it as universally true.
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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by drclau on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:26AM (#31059615)
There’s no way that natural selection selected for this, simply because, well, after you die you won’t have offspring to inherit it.

It is just a side effect of some other mechanism that likely has a use during our lifetime.

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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by mettamage on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:58AM (#31059747)
What do you think of the other replies?
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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by TedDoesntTalk on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:56PM (#31064439)
I read this quickly as "What do you think of the other reptiles?"
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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by mensetmanusman on Sunday April 17, 2022 @07:23AM (#31060087)
Well, does it matter? Every ‘we evolved X’ statement is tautological, and is more akin to bringing up the weather.

Until we can run control variables over billions of years…

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Re:Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death by Teletio on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:58AM (#31059978)
When your brain dies, depending on what the issue is, your brain no longer works under normal circumstances.

If your heart stops, oxygen is going down, it could just mean that your brain regularitory features stop working as designed and it's firering more random.

More random / lsd / drugs can give you weird effects. Optical, sensorical etc. illusions.

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